Cindy Carlson

Cindy Carlson, born in the U.P., began writing poems on birch trees. She now lives, teaches, writes, and sings in her band Linda, in Madison, WI. Her work has appeared in Sentence, Shampoo, Bloom, The Madison Review, Transom, among other fine literary journals. Her chapbook Queering was finalist for the Gertrude prize. Her book backwards rapture was finalist for the Sarabande prize. She received her BA from UW Madison and her MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.