Carlie Hoffman is the author of three collections of poetry, One More World Like This World (Four Way Books / Forthcoming Spring 2025), When There Was Light (Four Way Books, Spring 2023), winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), winner of the Northern California Publishers and Authors Gold Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award. Carlie’s honors include a “Discovery” / Boston Review prize from the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center, the Poets & Writers Amy Award, and the 2024 Jewish Studies Faculty Award from the State University of New York at Purchase. A 2024 Yetzirah Fellow and Convent Arts Fellow, she is the translator from German of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s Blütenlese (World Poetry Books / 2026), the monograph artbook White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph (Edited by Lynette Roth, Atelier Éditions, Fall 2025) in collaboration with Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum, and is completing the translations of the essential poems of Rose Ausländer (forthcoming).

Born in New Jersey, Hoffman earned her MFA in Poetry from Columbia University, where she was a Philip Guston Fellow, Chair’s Fellow, Director of the Columbia Artist Teachers (CA/T) program, recipient of a Creative Writing Teaching Fellowship, and served as poetry editor of Columbia Journal. She completed her master’s in literary translation at the City University of New York—Queens College, where she was an Irma and Harry Long Scholar, recipient of the Loose Translation Award, and served as editor-in-chief and translation editor of The Queens Review.

Hoffman has previously lectured and taught creative writing, literature, essay composition, and translation at Columbia University, NYU, and the State University of New York at Purchase. Her poems, translations, fiction, essays, and criticism have been featured in POETRY, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, Kenyon Review, The Slowdown, Poetry Daily, Los Angeles Review of Books, Jewish Currents, Boston Review, New England Review, and many other publications.

Hoffman is the founding editor and editorial director of Orange Editions/Small Orange Journal, where she curates and edits the interview series Small Orange Conversations with Poets.