About
Carrie Rudzinski is an American-New Zealand performance poet, published author, and teacher who has performed her work for audiences across New Zealand, Australia, Canada, India, Scotland, England, and almost all 50 of the United States. Ranked 4th in the world at the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam, her performances have been featured on HuffPost, Teen Vogue, and Bustle.​
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Carrie has been a featured performer at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Tedx Christchurch, India’s Poetry with Praktiki Festival, the Auckland Readers and Writers Festival, the Nelson Arts Festival, the Ruapehu Writers Festival, LitCrawl, WORD Christchurch, Taranaki Winter Festival, Hawkes Bay Arts Festival, WOMAD, and the Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival. Carrie was awarded the 2019 Pussy Riot Award for her performance at the Auckland Fringe Festival and received a standing ovation at the 10th annual Tedx Christchurch. She has co-created, written, performed, and produced three poetry theatre shows: How We Survive (2019), The Bitching Hour (2023), and Hysterical (2022) which won Best New Aotearoa Play at the Wellington Theatre Awards and Outstanding Performance Poetry at the Auckland Fringe Festival.
She has taught hundreds of writing workshops around the world and has lectured in Creative Writing and Performing Arts at University of California State Northridge, Manukau Institute of Technology, and Unitec.
Carrie's work has been published in Landfall, The Spinoff, Sweet Mammalian, Turbine/Kapohau, Takahē, Stasis Journal, University of California Press, The Legendary, Landing Press, Catalyst, Muzzle, We Will Be Shelter, and Learn Then Burn Vol. 2. She has released six chapbook collections of poetry and five spoken word albums. She is the co-editor of Rapture: An Anthology of Performance Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand (AUP, 2023).
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She recently completed her Masters of Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University Wellington. She currently resides in Auckland, New Zealand with her cat son.