Carla Damron is a novelist, short story
writer, advocate and social worker. Her novel The Stone Necklace, which was selected the 2016 One Book, One
Community read for Richland County, South Carolina, was chosen to receive the
prestigious “Star” Award for Best Novel by the Women’s Fiction Writers
Association.
Her short stories have
appeared in The Offbeat Literary Journal, Fall Lines, Jasper’s Marked by Water,
Melusine Magazine, and other journals. She began her writing career (not
counting the bird poem she got published at age eight) authoring the Caleb
Knowles Mystery series Keeping Silent, Spider Blue, and Death in Zooville.
Damron has an MFA in Creative Writing and a
Masters in Social Work. She finds the two careers, writer and social worker,
delicately intertwined: her fiction often explores social issues, and she finds
writing to be a powerful tool for advocacy and social justice.
Carla's author website: www.carladamron.com
Her email: carladamronwriter@gmail.com
