Meet Carol

Memoir and short fiction writer. Collector of eclectic people and experiences, an endless seeker, a woman who pays attention.

Carol draws inspiration from her family, her unconventional childhood travelling the world as a military brat and her love of travel. She is in the process of working on a collection of memoir pieces dealing with her experiences with her magical thinking Spanish grandmother,  her search for home and belonging and connection. 

Carol has been a lifelong civil servant in Canada’s capital. Daughter of a military attaché, she grew up all around the world, spending much of her childhood across Turkey and Switzerland. Since retiring, she has dedicated her time to writing memoir and short fiction and has found an incredible writing circle of inspiring women. 

Some of Carol’s favourite collections of memoir

 

Edmund De Waal

The Hare with Amber Eyes - a Hidden Inheritance

 

Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

Adam Gopnik

Paris to the Moon

 

Ernest Hemingway

A Moveable Feast

 

Abigail Thomas

What Comes Next and How to Like It

 

Patti Smith

Just Kids

Frank McCourt

Angela’s Ashes

 

Nuala O’Faolin

Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoirs of a Dublin Woman

 

Isabelle Huggan

Belonging

 

Inspiration drawn from my childhood