Carla Perry

CARLA PERRY was the founder of the Nye Beach Writers' Series and Writers On The Edge, a nonprofit organization dedicated to literary arts on the Central Oregon Coast. She received the Oregon Governor's Art Award, and the Stewart Holbrook Special Oregon Book Award for her outstanding contributions to Oregon's literary community. In 2021, she was awarded the Soapstone Bread & Roses Award for lifetime literary achievement.

From 1992 to 1995, she co-wrote and published the literary magazine "Wild Dog" while living on the road in a 1976 Chevy campervan. She was the founding editor and publisher of "Talus & Scree International Literary Journal." Her first book of poems & illustrations was "No Questions Asked, No Answers Given" (1971). "Laughing Like Dogs" (poems) was published in 1996. Her novel, "Riva Beside Me," is available as an eBook and paperback. "Wanderlust" (poems) was released in 2014 by Foothills Publishing. Her latest book,"The Jew Girls Adventure Series: You Can Call Me Andy" (2022), was written in collaboration with Jess Bondy and Sara Heimlich.

Carla is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, with a BA in Creative Writing/Poetry, and minors in Mandarin Chinese and printmaking. She spent 25 years as a freelance technical writer, ghostwriter, and photographer. She was the founding owner of Dancing Moon Press.