The Poet and the Poem
2026-27 Series

Featured Caroline Bock

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Caroline Bock is the author of THE OTHER BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, a workplace love story (June 2, 2026, Regal House Publishing). This novel is “a remarkable journey,” notes Kirkus Reviews. She is also the author of the young adult novels LIE and Before My Eyes (St. Martin’s Press), and Carry Her Home (winner of the WWPH Fiction Prize). Her short work is featured in the Best of Microfiction 2026 edited by Diane Seuss. A graduate of Syracuse University, she studied creative writing with Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher, and Jack Gilbert. After her twenty-year career in cable television, where she rose to senior vice president of marketing at BRAVO, IFC, and IFC Films, she earned an MFA in Fiction from the City College of New York. Since 2022, she has served as the co-president and prose editor at the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, a nonprofit literary press based in Washington D.C..

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