Carolyn Geduld

Carolyn Geduld was raised in New York City, but spent all of her adult life in Bloomington, Indiana as a mental health professional. When she was in her 20s, she wrote book reviews for the Louisville Courier Journal, articles on the arts, and three books: one of these, "Filmguide to 2001," is still available on Amazon.

Between her 20s and her mid-70s, she focused on her mental health career and on raising her children. She did no writing. After her husband's long illness and death, she began writing fiction to heal. Although she did not write a memoir, her reserve of emotions found their way into numerous very dark short stories, many published in literary journals or anthologies, and in her debut novel "Take Me Out The Back."

Her long career in mental health as a trauma therapist gave her insight into how high stress affects individuals, as well as how mass tragedies affect communities. This has been another strong influence on her fiction.