Episode 64: Carolyn Oliver (Of Alcestis, Space and Star Trek, and What Would You Give Up For Love?)

Carolyn Oliver, author of The Alcestis Machine

Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere

Read: “Space Age” in Menagerie Magazine

Purchase: The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, 2024)

Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, 2024), Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022; selected for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize), and three chapbooks. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in TriQuarterlyImageCopper NickelPoetry DailyMoist Poetry JournalConsequence, and elsewhere. Born in Buffalo and raised in Ohio, she now lives in Massachusetts. 

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