Carla Barger is an ecolyric poet and essayist who hails from the farmlands of southern Ohio. She holds a PhD in English from the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois Chicago and an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the production and copy editor for Harvard Papers in Botany and has previously taught creative writing and literature at the University of South Dakota and the University of Illinois Chicago. Her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies, and and she has received multiple writing prizes and nominations.
Carla’s creative work explores place and landscape, spectrality, transgenerational trauma, bootstrapping, and our degradation of nature and one another. She also researches and teaches film rhetoric and Emily Brontë’s canonical novel Wuthering Heights.
She has a keen interest in environmental and public humanities and enjoys creating interdisciplinary, public-facing projects that marry lyric poetry with research in various fields.
Carla is also former freelance editor and academic administrator. To learn more about her career background, go here. She has lived in many places (and still does) with her wife and their little copper husky, Lucille Ball.
