Calvin Olsen is an internationally-published poet and translator. He holds an MA in English & Comparative Literature from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University. His work has appeared in AGNI, Asymptote, The London Magazine, Poet Lore, Tampa Review, and many other journals and anthologies. A former Robert Pinsky Global Fellow and Pushcart Prize nominee, Calvin now lives in North Carolina and is the poetry editor for The Carolina Quarterly.
Calvin is currently a doctoral student in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media at NC State University. He is a research fellow in the Innovation Studio at NCSU Libraries and a teaching fellow in the First Year Writing and Professional Writing programs. He has previously taught English, composition, creative writing, and comparative literature at Boston University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and Bunker Hill Community College. His research interests include interactive fiction, visual/bodily rhetoric, the medical humanities, and all things Frankenstein (to name a few).
Calvin is currently a doctoral student in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media at NC State University. He is a research fellow in the Innovation Studio at NCSU Libraries and a teaching fellow in the First Year Writing and Professional Writing programs. He has previously taught English, composition, creative writing, and comparative literature at Boston University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and Bunker Hill Community College. His research interests include interactive fiction, visual/bodily rhetoric, the medical humanities, and all things Frankenstein (to name a few).