Recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, Carol Smallwood received a MLS from Western Michigan University, MA in History from Eastern Michigan University. Her library and teaching experience includes school, public, academic, special, as well as administration, and library systems consultant. She's edited, co-edited or written over five dozen library anthologies for the American Library Association, Rowman & Littlefield, McFarland, and others. Her eighth poetry collection, In the Measuring is from (Shanti Arts, 2018); hundreds of stories, essays, poems, reviews have appeared in RHINO, World Literature Today, and others. A multi-Pushcart nominee, she's founded humane societies and belongs to such organizations as The Society of Classical Poets.