Carol Edwards is a northern California native transplanted to southern Arizona. She lives and works in relative seclusion with her books, plants, and pets (+ husband). She grew up reading fantasy and classic novels, climbing trees, and acquiring frequent grass stains. She currently enjoys a decaf coffee addiction and raising her succulent army.
Her work has appeared in myriad periodical issues across the globe, both digital and print, including Space & Time, Uproar Literary Blog, Heart of Flesh Literary Journal, Agape Review, Trouvaille Review, POETiCA REViEW, Panoply Zine, The Quilled Ink Review, The Post Grad Journal, The Wild Word, Lit Shark Magazine, and Sublimation.
She’s also been published in anthologies from Red Penguin Books, Southern Arizona Press, White Stag Publishing, Black Spot Books, Weird Little Worlds, and The Ravens Quoth Press.
She published a free mini-chapbook in spring 2021 with Origami Poems Project, titled
Where You’ll Find Me…
https://www.origamipoems.com/poets/452-carol-edwards
Her debut full poetry collection, The World Eats Love, released April 25, 2023 from The Ravens Quoth Press in e-book and print versions: https://books2read.com/TWEL-by-Carol-Edwards
IG: @practicallypoetical
Facebook/X/Bluesky/TikTok: @practicallypoet
She sporadically uploads her poems to: https://practicallypoetical.wordpress.com