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.