About

Carla Schwartz is a poet, filmmaker, photographer, and blogger. She lives half the year on an unbridged island in Lake Winnipesaukee, and the other half in the Boston area. She's a long distance swimmer, paddleboarder, cross-country skier, cyclist, hiker, and haphazard gardener. Carla has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University.

Her poems, which reflect life, love, family, death, the natural world, social issues, the political climate and the environment, have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Amsterdam Quarterly, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Aurorean, Channel, Cider Press Review, Contemporary Haibun Online, Cutthroat, Door is a Jar, Drifting Sands Haibun, Eastern Iowa Review, Eunoia Review, Euphony, First Literary Review-East, Fourth River, Fulcrum, Cardiff, Channel, Common Ground, Glassworks, Gone Lawn, Gyroscope, Ibbetson Street, Inkstain Press, Leon Literary Review, Leveler, Lost River, Modern Haiku, Mojave River Review, The MacGuffin, Mom Egg, Naugatuck River, New Verse News, New Verse Review, North Dakota Quarterly, One Art, Oyster River Pages, Paterson Literary Review, Paddock Review, Pan Haiku Review, Panoply Zine, Past Ten, Pork Belly, Rattle Magazine, SHARKPack, Sheila-na-Gig, Silkworm, Silver Birch, Sense and Sensibility, Solstice, Soul Lit, Submittable, Spank the Carp, Sunlight Press, Sweet Tree, Switched-on Gutenberg, Tales from the Forest, The EAR, Triggerfish Critical Review, Verse-Virtual, WCAI Poetry Sunday, Wild Word, With Painted Words, and Zingara Review, among others.

Her poem, “Anthem,” won the May 2019 Lunch Ticket Twitter contest. Her poem, “Wormageddon,” appears as a model poem in The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics, edited by Diane Lockward. Her poem “Gum Surgery” was anthologized in City of Notions, A Boston Poetry Anthology. Carla Schwartz is a 2023 recipient of Massachusetts Cultural Council funding. Her poem, "Pat Schroeder Was Our Mother" wone the New England Poetry Club, 2023 E.E. Cummings Prize.

Her books include the chapbook "Signs of Marriage" (2022), Her CB99videos YouTube channel has 2,400,000+ views. Learn more at wakewiththesun.blogspot.com or find her on Twitter (https://twitter.com/cb99videos), YouTube (https://youtube.com/cb99videos), or Instagram (https://instagram.com/cb99videos), Threads (https://threads.net/@cb99videos), or Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/cb99videos.bsky.social) @cb99videos.