Caroline Barnes is a writer and editor in Silver Spring, Maryland. She has published in Rattle, Rhino Poetry, The Baltimore Review, Unbroken Journal, American Journal of Poetry, Comstock Review, Dappled Things, and elsewhere. Her poem “Portrait of My Father as a Young Doctor” was selected as a finalist in Rhino Poetry Founders’ Contest in 2024. She received an Independent Artists Award from the Maryland State Arts Council in 2022 and is currently at work on her first poetry collection.
