Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas lives in the Sierra Foothills. She studied at Santa Clara University where she was an English major. She is a nine-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a six-time Best of the Net nominee. In 2012 her chapbook, Before I Go to Sleep won the Red Ochre Chapbook Contest. In 2018 her poem A Mall in California took 2nd place for the Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize. She is the author of numerous chapbooks and six full-length collections of poetry, including Epitaph for the Beloved, (Finishing Line Press) and Alice in Ruby Slippers (Aldrich Press) slated for publication in 2019. Her work has appeared in a wide variety of online, print publications and anthologies, including The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, Poets and Artists, War, Literature and the Arts. She is the Editor for The Orchards Poetry Journal and a member of the Sacramento Poetry Center Board of Directors and the Saratoga Authors Hall of Fame. According to family lore, she is a direct descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Books by Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas:

Other poems on the web by Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas:
Five poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Girl of Yesterday, How I Miss You"
"Girl, I Remember You from What Seems a Lifetime Ago"
Four poems
"Your Mammogram Appointment"

Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas's Website.

Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas on Twitter.

About On the Edge of the Ethereal:

"The ability to visualize another world is a writer's great gift — a gift evident in the poetry of Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas. On the Edge of the Ethereal, her latest is collection, is a dark and beautiful book filled marvelously with the nature of loss, pain and its evasion, leaving, things left unsaid, 'inhaling a world gone wrong,' as she writes in 'Elegy with a Vision in the Room.' Grellas is a remarkable poet with an unflinching eye and ear for details. The writing is a powerful, rewarding journey, and not to be missed."
—Sam Rasnake

"These poems weave together the layers of intensity between love and grief, many of them exploring latitudes of acute experience where joy and sadness are two sides of the same coin. This is not a collection of elegies in a traditional sense, but rather a devotion on cherishing the beauty of those we love in the face of mortality. Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas conveys an ephemeral mood of enchantment, where loved ones are cherished and even bereavement aspires to a state of grace."
—Vera Ignatowitsch

"On the Edge of the Ethereal is a powerful collection of poetry by Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas. Poems like 'Getting over a Suicide / Daughter's Project' and 'October at the Funeral' tear down into the reader's heart and wrench a flurry of grief, pain, and ruin. The author makes us feel heavy, gut-punching us as we move through each page. On the Edge is a wonderfully written book, one that is all too powerful to read through once."
—Weasel