Carmin Wong
Guest/Teaching Artist
Carmin Wong is a poet, playwright, digital humanist, and dual-title Ph.D. candidate in english Litᐧorature and African American and Diaspora Studies at Pennsylvania State University, originally from Guyana. Raised in South Jamaica, Queens, New York, she holds a B.A. in English with a minor in Playwriting from Howard University and an M.F.A. in Poetry Writing from the University of New Orleans. Carmin has received artist grants from Poets & Writers, Scholastic, Jeremy O. Harris, and The Bushwick Starr, along with fellowships from the Wild Seeds Writers Retreat, The Watering Hole, and the Furious Flower Poetry Center. Her poetry has been recognized by the Academy of American Poetry, and her works have been broadcast on WRBH and WPSU radio stations. Carmin's writing appears in various publications, including Xavier Review, Obsidian, The Quarry, and Sou’wester. Her recent play, Finding Home: Adeline Lawson Graham, Colored Citizen of Bellefonte (Pennsylvania State University, 2023), utilizes the arts and archival research to reconstruct the narratives of 19th-century African American residents of Centre County, Pennsylvania. She co-authored the choreopoem A Chorus Within Her (Theater Alliance, 2021) and the award-winning Furious Flower Syllabus: Opening the World of Black Poetry (James Madison University, 2024). Carmin serves as the 2024-2025 Shirley Graham Du Bois Creative in Residence with Castle of Our Skins. In her spare time, she facilitates writing workshops for youth and system-impacted adults in jails and prisons and organizes community-led arts and social justice programming.