Originally from Southside Virginia, Caitlin Scarano is a writer based in Bellingham, Washington. She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and an MA from Bowling Green State University.

Her second full length collection of poems, THE NECESSITY OF WILDFIRE, was selected by Ada Limón as the winner of the Wren Poetry Prize and will be released on April 5th 2022 by Blair.

In May 2021, Bear Gallery (Fairbanks, Alaska) exhibited Caitlin and Megan Perra's collaborative project “The Ten-Oh-Two”—poems and visual art on the Porcupine Caribou Herd. Learn more about this project here.

Caitlin is a member of the Washington Wolf Advisory Group and a current participant in the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)’s In a Time of Change (ITOC) program. She was selected as a participant in the NSF’s Antarctic Artists & Writers Program and spent November 2018 in McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

Caitlin’s debut collection of poems, DO NOT BRING HIM WATER, was released in Fall 2017.