Carol Smallwood, Pushcart-nominee, is in Best New Writing 2010. She edited Writing and Publishing: The Librarian's Handbook (American Library Association, 2010); Bringing the Arts Into the Library (American Library Association, 2013); co-edited (Molly Peacock, foreword) Women on Poetry: Tips on Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching (McFarland, 2012) is on Poets & Writers Magazine List of Best Books for Writers; Women Writing on Family: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing (Key Publishing House, 2012); How to Thrive as a Solo Librarian (Scarecrow, 2012). Her articles have appeared in such magazines as The Writer's Chronicle, American Libraries, Michigan Feminist Studies. Some of her over three dozen nonfiction books were published by Peter Lang, Libraries Unlimited, Linworth. Her columns include those for The Detroit News. The book reviews she has written have appeared in such publications as: Book/Mark: A Quarterly Small Press Review. Carol appears in Contemporary Authors; some of the Marquis publications are: Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in the World.

Divining the Prime Meridian (WordTech Editions, 2014), Mid Crossings (The Moon Publishing, 2014), Compartments: Poems on Nature, Femininity and Other Realms (Anaphora Literary Press, 2011), Lily's Odyssey (All Things That Matter Press, 2010)

On the Way to Wendy's (Pudding House Publications, 2008)

Anthology of Grass Roots Poets (Green Fuse Poetic Arts Association, 2012), Winter Tales II: Women on the Art of Aging (Serving House Books, 2012), Women on Poetry: Tips on Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching (McFarland, 2012), Best New Writing 2010 (Hopewell Publications, 2009), Illuminations (Celestial Arts an imprint of Ten Speed Pres, 2006), Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, 2004)

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