Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas lives in the Sierra Foothills. She is a recent graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, MFA in Writing Program. She is an eight-time Pushcart nominee and a five-time Best of the Net nominee. She is the author of the following collections of poetry, “Epistemology of an Odd Girl”, March Street Press, “Hasty Notes in No Particular Order”, “Letters Under the Banyan Tree” and “The Wanderer’s Dominion,” Aldrich Press, “Breakfast in Winter,” Flutter Press, along with several chapbooks, “Litany of Finger Prayers,” Pudding House Press, “Object of Desire,” Finishing Line Press, “A Thousand Tiny Sorrows,” March Street Press, “The Butterfly Room”, Big Table Books, “The Nightly Suicides”, Kattywompus Press, “Things I Can’t Remember to Forget”, Prolific Press, and the winning chapbook in The Red Ochre Chapbook Contest, “Before I Go to Sleep”, along with her latest collections slated for publication this year with Main Street Rag, “An Ode to Hope in the Midst of Pandemonium“, “In the Making of Goodbyes”, Clare Songbird Press and “On the Edge of the Ethereal” Kelsay Books and Alice in Ruby Slippers, Aldrich Press