This week we welcome Carlie Ramer as our guest author. Carlie studied English and Creative Writing – Poetry at SUNY Binghamton. She has participated in poetry workshops at The New York State Summer Writers Institute, NYU, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and Eckerd College Writers In Paradise where she was awarded an artistic merit scholarship. Her collaborative work with the North Carolina-based dance troupe Moving Women won a Catalyst Series Award and was performed at The North Carolina Stage Company, among other venues. Her work was part of the "Grand Slam” group exhibit at the Piq Gallery in New York City at Grand Central Station, in which her poem, “Subway Songs,” was the main component of a mixed media art piece. She has published work on parenting in The Huffington Post. She is working on a memoir comprised of her poetry and creative nonfiction essays.
Welcome, Carlie.
— sdl