Carolyn DeCarlo lives in Wellington with her partner and two cats. She has written a few chapbooks, most recently Green Place (Enjoy Journal, 2015) and Bound: An Ode to Falling in Love (Compound Press, 2014), which she co-wrote with Jackson Nieuwland. She is a founding member of the Wellington-based reading collective, Food Court. A number of her poems will be published in AUP New Poets 5, alongside Sophie van Waardenberg and Rebecca Hawkes, in August 2019.