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 nominee and a seven-time Best of the Net nominee. In 2012 she was the winner of the Red Ochre Chapbook Contest, with her manuscript, Before I Go to Sleep. She is the author of numerous books and has had hundreds of poems published in print journals and online, including War, Literature and the Arts, and The Yale Journal of Humanities in Medicine. In 2018 her poem "A Mall in California" took 2nd place for the Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in international publications as well as several anthologies across the U.S. In 2019 her chapbook An Ode to Hope in the Midst of Pandemonium was an Eric Hoffer Book Award finalist. She has been the featured poet at countless venues as well as the guest speaker at the California Writer's Club. She is the Editor-in-Chief for The Orchards Poetry Journal and Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Tule Review. She is a member of the Sacramento Poetry Center Board of Directors, Saratoga Author's Hall of Fame and has been a visiting professor at UC Davis. According to family lore, she is a direct descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson.