Caroline Brooks DuBois is the author of three verse novels. She received her MFA in poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, under the scholarship of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate, among other greats in the poetry world.

She writes both poetry and prose and a mixture of the two. Her poetry has appeared in an eclectic collection of media, from Highlights High Five, Southern Poetry Review, to The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Caroline has taught English and creative writing at the middle school, high school, and college levels. She has been recognized as a Nashville Blue Ribbon Teacher and a Teacher of the Year.

Currently, she is the director of the Literary Arts Conservatory at Nashville School of the Arts High School in Nashville, Tennessee. She lives with her singer-songwriter husband, with whom she’s co-written songs, and their dog, Lilli.