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poetry

Alyse Carlson is a practicing pediatrician, poet, and a student in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review and is forthcoming in The Georgia Review and Literary Mama. She lives with her family in Spokane, Washington.

Publications

Chicago Quarterly Review Vol. 42, Fall 2025. "West Elk Creek"

The Pharos. Autumn 2015. “Kyrie.”

The Pharos. Autumn 2014. “The Weight of a Marble.”

Journal of Medical Humanities. Vol. 35, September 2014. “These Iowa Fields.”