
Caroliena Cabada
She/Her | Fiction, poetry, posts
Caroliena Cabada is a writer of fiction and poetry. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University and her PhD in English, Creative Writing, from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her writing has appeared in Bellingham Review, fourteen poems, Rogue Agent, ALOCASIA, and elsewhere. Her first book of poetry, titled True Stories, was published by Unsolicited Press in 2024.
Books
Selected work
My Father's Mother's Daughter
Bellingham Review, 2025
Swimming Lessons
Pleiades Magazine, 2022
One Fall
Five on the Fifth, 2022
Star Count of Orion
JMWW, 2019
Manner
Hawaii Pacific Review, 2024
Pant
Elysium Review, 2024
"Backing Up" (in Issue 18)
fourteen poems, 2025
If I Wanted, Aubade Still Waking, & Unnatural Instinct
The Spotlong Review, 2024
Wild Onion
ALOCASIA, 2025
Unnatural Instinct
RogueAgent, 2025
