Carla Panciera was raised on her family's dairy farm in Westerly, RI. She has published two previous collections of poetry: Cider Press Award Winner, One of the Cimalores and Bordighera Press Poetry Award Winning, No Day, No Dusk, No Love. Her poetry has appeared in numerous magazines including Poetry, RHINO, Cream City Review, and the Los Angeles Review. Her collection of short stories, Bewildered, received the 2013 Grace Paley Short Fiction Award from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press. Her short stories have appeared in the New England Review, the Clackamas Review, Slice, and other magazines. Her short story, "The Kind of People Who Look at Art" was indexed as a distinguished story in Best American Short Stories 2017 by Junot Diaz.She was the James E. Kilgore scholar in Nonfiction at Bread Loaf Writers Conference and is the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant in Creative Nonfiction from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is also the author Barnflower: A Rhode Island Farm Memoir (Loom Press, 2023) A recently retired high school English teacher, Carla lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts.