Carlina Duan

Carlina Duan is a writer-educator from Michigan. The author of the poetry collection I Wore My Blackest Hair, she currently teaches at the University of Michigan, where she is also a PhD student in the Joint Program of English and Education. Carlina directs a short-story workshop for young writers at Neutral Zone, a youth center for creative arts in Ann Arbor. She believes in gardens. Visit her at carlinaduan.com.

Various Instructions

•Various Instructions on Returning Home to the Midwest (or, How to Fashion a New Pledge of Allegiance)

Write down a list of locations you love, places you still want to visit, acts of kindness you’ve witnessed, questions you harbor about home, a recipe for a vegetable you hate, the address of your closest community garden, library, or body of water.

Teach Ecotone

•Imaging / Reimagining Departure and Return

A guide to the Craft Issue, inspired by Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s essay “Monsoon and Peacock”