Solla Carrock

Solla Carrock has lived in Washington, Missouri, Virginia, Ohio and Louisiana , but has spent most of her adult life in Portland, Oregon where she came to attend Reed College at age 17. Currently she works as a computer programmer, but has held a wide variety of positions including working with homeless teenage girls, interviewing prison inmates in a drug treatment program, and being a member of Teach For America, teaching art, English and world geography in a high school in Louisiana. Her daughter, Erin, teaches middle school language arts in Portland. Solla has had poetry published in the Portland Review, To Topos, Camroc Press Review, and, in the anthology, Naming: Poems by Eight Women. She edited and contributed to Mothers and Fathers: Being Parents, Remembering Parents. Her short stories have appeared in 34th Paralle, Bartleby Snopes and Ascensions Aspirations.