CARLA MARTIN-WOOD

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Carla Martin-Wood has been a widely published poet since 1978. Recently retired from her career in the rat race world of advertising, she is relishing her newfound freedom.

 

The author of eight full-length books of poetry prior to The Witch on Yellowhammer Hill, Carla’s most recent collection was Eiswein (The Pink Petticoat Press, 2015). She has also authored eight chapbooks, most recently Season of Mists (The 99% Press, 2012).

A copy of Carla’s chapbook, Garden of Regret (Pudding House Publications Chapbook Series, 2009), resides in the Special Collections & University Archives at Stanford University, contributed by the renowned Russian poet, essayist and dramatist, Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

Carla's poems have appeared in a plethora of journals and numerous anthologies in the US, England, and Ireland since 1978.

 

With a background of 13 years in theatre, Carla has performed her work from the hallowed University of The South at Sewanee to legendary Greenwich Village.

 

She has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize more than a dozen times, for Best of the Net twice, and is listed in Poets & Writers.

 

Carla is a Democratic Socialist, who has been a lifelong political and social activist. Her introduction to activism was as one of four white teens who fought their way through picket lines to break the white boycott of a high school in Birmingham, Alabama during the violent racial conflicts of 1963. She continued as an activist for human rights, the anti-war movement and NOW through the 1980s. Her current interests lie in universal healthcare, expansion of Social Security and gun control. She passionately supports preservation of the earth through environmental protection and raised awareness.