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First Name Carol A
Last Name Stephen
Member Since April 20, 2023
Email cstephen0@gmail.com
City Carleton Place
State ON
Zipcode K7C 4P8
Country Canada
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Branch Affiliation National Capital Region
Website https://quillfyre.ca/
Blog https://quillfyre.ca/
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Bio Carol A. Stephen is the author of What I Carry with Me, her first full poetry collection, Winning the Lottery, Surviving Clostridium Difficile (Crowe Creations, 2019), five chapbooks, including the most recent Unhook (catkin press, 2018) and Lost Silence of the Small (Local Gems Press, 2018), and co-author of two books with JC Sulzenko: Breathing Mutable Air (Nose in Book Publishing, 2015) and Slant of Light (Nose in Book Publishing, 2016). Her poetry has placed in several writing contests and featured in Poetry Is Dead, Silver Birch Press, Topology Magazine, The Light Ekphrastic, and With Painted Words, among others. Her work has also appeared in two chapbooks edited by Lorna Crozier: Sound Me When I’m Done (Wintergreen Studios, 2016) and Teasing the Tongue (Wintergreen Studios, 2017). Carol is a member of The Ontario Poetry Society, League of Canadian Poets, and Alliance of Independent Authors. You can connect with her on Twitter @carolstephen2, Facebook under Carol A. Stephen, and her website https://quillfyre.ca/. When she’s not writing poems, Carol enjoys cooking and traveling. She shares her home in Carleton Place, Ontario with her brother, Norm, and a tortoiseshell cat named Molly.
Publications Above the Hum of Yellow Jackets (2011) Architectural Variations (2012) Ink Dogs in my Shoes (Dec. 2014) Unhook (2018) Lost Silence of the Small (2018) Winning the Lottery, Surviving Clostridium Difficile (2019) What I Carry with Me ( 2022)
Other Memberships League of Canadian Poets The Ontario Poetry Society International Women Writers Guild The Writers' Union of Canada (pending)
Awards Hot Ottawa Voices, 2012
Contests Third Place, National Capital Writing Contest, 2012, Poetry for Walking in Thomson's Red Sumac HM in the Poetry for the End of the World Contest, 2012, Versefest
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