Tina Carlson is a New Mexico poet. She grew up in the foothills of the Colorado rocky mountains and spent her childhood playing in dirt and climbing trees. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry:  Ground, Wind, This Body (UNM Press, 2017), We Are Meant to Carry Water (3: A Taos Press), a collaboration with 2 other NM poets, and A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery (UNM Press, 2023) which won first place in the NM/AZ book award for poetry. Her chapbook, Obsidian, was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2024. Her essay, Mothers and Manta Rays won second place in the 2025 Tucson Literary Book Festival’s prize for non-fiction and her flash piece, Jackie is Off Her Meds Again, was nominated for Best of the Net micro-fiction 2024 by the Ilanot Review. She is an editor of the online journal Unbroken.

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