Caren Beilin is the author of the novel Sea, Poison (New Directions, 2025), longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Her previous books include Revenge of the Scapegoat (Dorothy, 2022)—winner of the Vermont Book Award for Fiction—Blackfishing the IUD (Wolfman Books, 2019), Spain (Rescue Press, 2018), The University of Pennsylvania (Noemi Press, 2014), and the chapbook Americans, Guests, or Us (Diagram/New Michigan Press, 2012). Some of these titles have been published abroad with Scribner (UK), The Last Books (Amsterdam), and los tres editores (Madrid). She lives in Cleveland where she is Fiction Editor for Cleveland Review of Books and an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University.
photograph by Carleen Coulter