Welcome to the Carol Bly website!

Carol Bly is the author of books of short stories and essays, and books about how to write stories and nonfiction, and how to teach creative writing. Carol Bly is a nationally acclaimed Private Writing Consultant. She has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Carleton, the Edelstein-Keller Distinguished Author at the University of Minnesota, and the recipient of the 2001 Minnesota Humanities Award for Literature.

Please use the menu at left to read reviews, excerpts, and tables of contents from Carol's books. Please write to carolbly@visi.com with any questions you may have.

4 chapters of Carol's forthcoming novel, Shelter Half have been published:

• "At the Bottom of the United States," in The Idaho Review, Winter 2002, ($10.95, at Idaho Review, English Dept., Boise State Univ., 1910 Univ. Drive, Boise ID 83725.
• "Crime," in The Idaho Review
• "Love in a Time of Empire," in Prairie Schooner, Spring-Summer 2003 issue, English Dept., Univ of Nebraska, P.O. Box 880334, Lincoln, NE 68588-0334. Received an award.
  "An Amateur's Story," in Prairie Schooner, Spring-Summer, 2006, English Dept., Univ. of Nebraska, P.O. Box 88034, Lincoln, NE 68588-0334. Received a prize.