Stacy Carlson's work has appeared inIn Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing, Inkwell, andLumina. She won the 2003 Dana Portfolio Award, given for three book-length manuscripts, and was awarded residencies at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in California and Galleri Svalbard, in Norway. She holds an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College, and is a freelance editor with clients ranging from Microsoft to the Esalen Institute. Stacy complements her literary life with rigorous work in the wild. She conducted field research in a bird refuge near Sitka, Alaska, and was an assistant hiking guide in the arctic and in Big Sur, California. She worked in a fish cannery, as a hot springs caretaker, a deckhand on a wooden boat, and with the San Francisco Estuary Institute, scouring the shores of San Francisco Bay for the exotic oyster speciesCrassostrea gigas. She lives in Oakland, California, and in her spare time harvests fruit from her eight fruit trees and explores the urban landscape by bicycle. www.amongthewonderful.com.
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Stacy Carlson's work has appeared inIn Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing, Inkwell, andLumina. She won the 2003 Dana Portfolio Award, given for three book-length manuscripts, and was awarded residencies at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in California and Galleri Svalbard, in Norway. She holds an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College, and is a freelance editor with clients ranging from Microsoft to the Esalen Institute. Stacy complements her literary life with rigorous work in the wild. She conducted field research in a bird refuge near Sitka, Alaska, and was an assistant hiking guide in the arctic and in Big Sur, California. She worked in a fish cannery, as a hot springs caretaker, a deckhand on a wooden boat, and with the San Francisco Estuary Institute, scouring the shores of San Francisco Bay for the exotic oyster speciesCrassostrea gigas. She lives in Oakland, California, and in her spare time harvests fruit from her eight fruit trees and explores the urban landscape by bicycle. www.amongthewonderful.com.
