Kai Carlson-Wee is a poet and filmmaker from northern Minnesota. His work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Best New Poets, TriQuarterly, Poetry Northwest, and The Missouri Review, which selected his poems for the 2013 Jeffery E. Smith Editor’s Prize. His photography has been featured in Narrative Magazine and his short film, “Riding the Highline,” was an official selection at the 2015 Napa Valley Film Festival where it won an award for Innovation in Documentary Short Film. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he lives in San Francisco, and is a Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Kai Carlson-Wee
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2015
Studios
Mansfield
Kai Carlson-Wee worked in the Mansfield studio.
The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…