Carol Dorf

About Me

I live in Berkeley with my husband, child, and two cats.

I have current work on-line in Poemeleon, Fringe, The Midway, New Verse News, Babel Fruit, and elsewhere.

Why do you write?

I write to be part of the conversation of readers and writers. I write because I like playing with words. I write because I think better while writing, and I like to surprise myself.

Any favorite authors? Books?

poets: Charles Simic, Elizabeth Bishop, Ginsberg, David St. John, Linda Pastan, Adrienne Rich

sf writers: Octavia Butler, Ursula LeGuin, Samuel Delaney, Ellen Klages, Pat Murphy, Jim Gardiner, William Gibson, Kim Stanley Robinson

literary writers: Virginia Woolfe, Isabelle Allende, Sara Gruen, Peter Handke, David Plante, Doctorow, Joan Didion, Austen, Balzac