Claudia Carlson

Claudia Carlson was born in Bloomington, Indiana and raised in seven college towns (not simultaneously). She double-majored in English and Art History at Stony Brook University. She has worked as a quilt designer, cartographer, calligrapher, illustrator, book designer, salad chef at The Magic Pan, and website designer. She co-founded the writing group River Writers of Manhattan; they had a 15th anniversary reading at the Mercantile Library in 2006. She has studied poetry at the Frost Place and 92nd St. Y. Her work was included in the anthology The Breath of Parted Lips II: Poems from the Robert Frost Place, CavanKerry Press, 2004 and she’s the co-editor of the anthology, The Poets’ Grimm: Twentieth Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales, Story Line Press, 2003. She co-authored The Bulgarian Americans in 1990. Her poems have appeared in Court Green, Southern Poetry Review, and Heliotrope among others. Divide, The Cream City Review and Gargoyle Magazine have published her photographs. On Sundays, she paints watercolors (see her work at www.claudiagraphics.com). She is a senior book designer at Oxford University Press and lives in New York City with her family.