Caren Beilin

Caren Beilin is the author of the novel Sea, Poison (New Directions, 2025), longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Her five previous books include Revenge of the Scapegoat (Dorothy, 2022), winner of the Vermont Book Award for Fiction. She lives in Cleveland, where she is fiction editor of Cleveland Review of Books and associate professor at Case Western Reserve University. (updated 10/2026)