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Carla Martin-Wood

Author's Bio

Nine times nominated for The Pushcart Prize and twice for Best of the Net, Carla Martin-Wood is the author of 5 full-length collections of poetry: Into the Windfall Light (The Pink Petticoat Press); and Songs from the Web (encore), One flew east, How we are loved, and Flight Risk (all Fortunate Childe Publications). She has authored six chapbooks: Garden of Regret, Redheaded Stepchild, The Last Magick (Pudding House Chapbook Series); Feed Sack Majesty and HerStory, (both Fortunate Childe Publications), and Absinthe & Valentines (Flutter Press). Her work also appears in the following anthologies: Love Poems & Other Messages for Bruce Springsteen (Pudding House), Casting the Nines (Pudding House); Lilith: a collection of women’s writes, Postcards from Eve (both Fortunate Childe Publications); and From the Front Porch (Silver Boomer Books). Carla's poems have been widely published in journals in the US, UK, and Ireland.

Publications and Prizes

Books:
Flight Risk (Fortunate Childe Publications, 2011), Into the Windfall Light (The Pink Petticoat Press, 2011), Songs from the Web (encore) (Fortunate Childe Publications, 2011), How we are loved (Fortunate Childe Publications, 2010), One flew east (Fortunate Childe Publications, 2010)
Chapbooks:
Absinthe & Valentines (Flutter Press, 2011), Redheaded Stepchild (Pudding House Publications, 2010), The Last Magick (Pudding House Publications, 2010), Garden of Regret (Pudding House Publications, 2009)
Anthologies:
Tipping the Sacred Cow (Fortunate Childe Publications, 2011), Vintage (Fortunate Childe Publications, 2011), Postcards from Eve (Fortunate Childe Publications, 2010), Casting the Nines (Pudding House Publications, 2009), Lilith (Fortunate Childe Publications, 2009), Love Poems & Other Messages for Bruce Springsteen (Pudding House Publications, 2009)
Prizes:
Best of the Net 2011 Nominee; Best of the Net 2010 Nominee; Five times nominated in 2011 for The Pushcart Prize; Twice nominated in 2010 for The Pushcart Prize; Pushcart Prize Nominee 2009; Pushcart Prize Nominee 2008

Personal Favorites

Favorite Authors:
Katha Pollitt, Louise Gluck, Richard Wilbur, Pablo Neruda, WS Merwin, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anne Carroll George

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Listing last updated: November 18, 2011

More Information

Listed as:
Poet
Gives readings?
Yes
Travels for readings?
No
Prefers to work with:
Adults
Fluent in:
English

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