Caroline Misner is a graduate of Sheridan College of Applied Arts & Technology with a diploma in Media Arts Writing. Her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in several journals throughout the USA, Canada, India and the UK. She's had work published in several anthologies and webzines. In 2009, she was nominated for the Writers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Anthology Prize as well a Pushcart Prize in 2010 and 2011. In 2004, her novella received Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest. A short story was also a finalist in the same contest. Her novel The Glass Cocoon was a semi-finalist for the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award the following year. Her novella The Watchmaker was published in November 2011 by Vagabondage Press and is selling well in e-book format. Her YA fantasy series The Daughters of Eldox was received positive reviews and her historical novel The Spoon Asylum was nominated for numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Award.
She will have another novel entitled SEEDs of the Inside Straight released in 2024.
You can view more of her work at her website: carolinemisner.com.
I spotted a fish tail flapping over the surface and an iridescent shimmer darting beneath the water. "Sophia," Papa said, I have brought you a friend."
When I could afford to be a dreamer,
the stars pulsed like a heartbeat
and the sloop-nosed moon left no sound;