Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas

Carol Lynn Grellas is a Northern California-based writer. She attended Santa Clara University where she was an English and Art major. She enjoys writing in both free and metered verse. Her first Chapbook: Litany of Finger Prayers will be released in 2008 from Pudding House Press. Her second Chapbook, Object of Desire was recently accpeted for publication by Finishing Line Press and will be forthcoming.

She is widely publishced, including most recently, The Oasis Ezine & Online, Las Cruces for Poets & Writers, Munyori Poetry Journal, Words on Paper, The Pregnant Moon Review Moondance, Dogzplot, The Verse Marauder, A Tender Touch, MSU Great Falls Literary Guild: Writings from the River, The Storyteller Magazine, Kingly Blue, Chanterelle's Notebook, The New Mirage Quarterly, Silenced Press, The Hiss Quarterly and Flutter. She has poems forthcoming in, Ken*again, The Oak Bend Review, Octaves Eight, Eskimopie (SPAM), The Battered Suitcase, The Boston Literary Review, Word Catalyst Magazine, Strong Verse, Expression of Depression from Vagabondagepress with proceeds donated to the Mind charity project, Poet's Ink, Debris Magazine, Mississippi Crow, Poetry Friends & Madswirl

Carol Lynn's first book, I'm Packing Things for Heaven was published in 2007...Her hobbies include, cooking, gardening and dabbling with a paintbrush now and then. She enjoys being a moderator at the online workshop, The Critical Poet. She lives with her husband, five children, three parrots and a blind dog named Ginger, who inspire much of her poetry.

clgrellas@aol.com

~for my mother~