About The Founder - Carla Perry

Carla Perry

CARLA PERRY is the founder of both the monthly Nye Beach Writers' Series and Writers On The Edge, Inc.

Besides receiving the Stewart Holbrook Special Award at the Oregon Book Awards and the Oregon Governor's Art Award for her efforts regarding Writers on The Edge, Carla has received an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship in Fiction, a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission, and been granted several writing residencies for completion of her own work.

Her first book of poems and illustrations, "No Questions Asked, No Answers Given," was published in 1971. "Laughing Like Dogs," a book of her poetry, photos and illustrations, was published in 1996.

She 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, grantwriter and photographer. Her poetry, essays, interviews, and short stories have been published widely. Her photos of people, mostly writers, have won awards and been used in numerous publications. 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 also the founding editor and publisher of "Talus & Scree International Literary Journal" from 1997 to 1999.

Samples of online essays, interviews, poetry, and articles about Carla:

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Tin House Publishing interview of Ken Kesey Tin House Publishing Interview of Ken Kesey

The White Crosses At Nye Beach - Oregon Literary Review 2008 The White Crosses At Nye Beach - Oregon Literary Review 2008

Roy Rogers Kissed Trigger A Lot - Oregon Literary Review 2009 Roy Rogers Kissed Trigger A Lot - Oregon Literary Review 2009

Oregon Rain - a poem for Oregon Stories: The state's 150 sesquicentennial Oregon Rain - a poem for Oregon Stories: The state's 150 sesquicentennial

Newport News-Times feature article on Carla Perry and Writers On The Edge  

Newport News-Times feature on Carla Perry and Dancing Moon Press