Author
Bio
Teresa Carson grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey,
as the youngest of ten in a blue-collar family. At the age of eighteen
she was one of the first women hired by the local phone company to work
in a non-traditional-for-women technical job. For the next thirty-one
years she worked in non-traditional union/management, technical/administrative
positions for the phone company before retiring in 2003. She holds an
MFA in Poetry and an MFA in Theatre, both from Sarah Lawrence College.
Her first book of poems, Elegy for the Floater,
was published by CavanKerry Press in 2008. She is currently circulating
her second book, The Congress of Human Oddities, about a sideshow
traveling through Ohio during the Civil War. Teresa adapted this second
book into a full length play, Mister V.’s Congress of Human
Oddities, which was produced at Sarah Lawrence College as part
of the Theatre Department’s spring 2009 season. Teresa, who currently
teaches at the College of New Rochelle, grew up in Hudson County, New
Jersey and continues to live there with her husband, John.