Born in Westerly, RI, Carla Panciera was raised on her family's dairy farm. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a BA in English and has a graduate degree in poetry from Boston University where she studied with George Starbuck and Derek Walcott.

She has published two collections of poetry: One of the Cimalores (Cider Press) and No Day, No Dusk, No Love (Bordighera). Her poetry has appeared in numerous magazines including Poetry, Painted Bride Quarterly, Nimrod, Carolina Quarterly, and The Los Angeles Review.

Her first collection of short stories, Bewildered, received the 2013 Grace Paley Short Fiction Award from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (Pam Houston, judge) and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press. Her short stories have appeared in the New England Review, Clackamas Review, Slice, and other magazines. Her short story, "The Kind of People Who Look at Art" was chosen by Junot Diaz as a distinguished story in Best American Short Stories for 2017.

Ms. Panciera worked as a high school English teacher for almost thirty years. She lives with her husband, Dennis Donoghue, and their three daughters in Rowley, MA. Find out more about this author and about life on Tum-A-Lum Farm at her blogsite: carlapanciera.wordpress.com.