Electric Bite Woman
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"Haley Patail is a graduate of the University of Michigan where she studied Linguistics and Creative Writing. A year after being a part of the youth slam team, Patail joined the 2011 University of Michigan Slam Team. With Duan she is also a member of Ann Arbor Wordworks, this is where they started becoming better friends. She has been published in the Ann Arbor News when it used to be in it’s paper form." -adapted from an article in The Communicator by Nick Hagopian-Zirkel
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"The fierce, fiery and highly accomplished Carlina Duan is a graduate of the University of Michigan where she studied English and Creative Writing. Carlina is a connoisseur of words, and her poetry and her work is blessed.
In 2013 Carlina co-wrote the poetry collection Electric Bite Women with poet and UM alum Haley Patail (currently sold online and at local Ann Arbor bookstores like Literati and Nicola’s). She has won Hopwood Awards at UM in Poetry for three consecutive years and performed on national stages in big cities like New York City and San Francisco. She also currently works at The Neutral Zone in Ann Arbor as a Literary Arts Program Adviser of Red Beard Press, the independent, youth-driven publishing company that published Electric Bite Women." -Adapted from an article by Sundai Johnson on hercampus.com Also check out Carlina's articles on The Michigan Daily! (link below) |