about
caroline gioiosa (joy-oh-sah) waring received her mfa from new york university, where she is the 2023-2024 axinn writer-in-residence. her fiction is published in the yale review and the drift.
paternal leave
“ON A PURPLE EVENING, my father buried himself alive. He wasn’t the first. It was a craze that swept the nation, a broom brushing dirt over the heads and bodies of dreamy Americans. But no one took the endeavor as seriously as my father.”
The Wolf man
“I met the Wolf Man at a pool hall in Point Reyes last summer. Under the sickly bar lights, his face looked scrambled, like a Cubist collage — one eye higher than the other, an uneven nose, a mouth that could swallow a fist.”
CAROLINE WARING 