Ioanna Carlsen's poems and stories have appeared in Agni, Poetry, Field, Alaska Quarterly Review, Hudson Review, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Daily, Glimmer Train, among others. In 2002, she won the Glimmer Train Poetry Open, and in 2015, her collection The Whisperer won second place in the New Mexico Press Women's Book Contest.