About the Author

Carol Townsend received her BS in Art from Nazareth College of Rochester and her BFA in Applied Design in Ceramics from Ohio University. Prior to her retirement, she was an Associate Professor of Art and Design and former Chair of the Design Department at the State University College of New York at Buffalo. As an award winning ceramicist and mixed media artist, her works are represented in numerous collections. She has been a frequent participant in the Chautauqua Writers’ Center poetry workshops and has served on the board of the Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends. One of her poems was the first runner up in the 2019 National Carolyn Forche Prize competition sponsored by Waterwood Press.

Her poems have appeared in the journals Voices de la Luna and Sow’s Ear, The Healing Muse, in The Buffalo News, and on the Master Poetry Ink website. She has been an invited reader in the Gray Hair, Rooftop, Wordflight, Red Door and Literary Cafe Series in Buffalo, New York.

An avid gardener and photographer, she resides with her husband, John, and mini-dachshund, Loki, in Snyder, New York.