Caroline Anna Bock is the author of CARRY HER HOME, winner of the Fiction Award from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, and the critically acclaimed young adult novels LIE and BEFORE MY EYES from St. Martin’s Press–with four-starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal. She is the winner of the short story award from Writer magazine and the Adrift Short Story Award from Driftwood Press. Her short work has been published in SmokeLong, Brevity, Bethesda Magazine, Gargoyle, The Grace and Gravity series, and many other publications.

In 2011, she earned an MFA in Fiction from The City University of New York. She holds an undergraduate degree from Syracuse University where she studied prose writing with Raymond Carver and poetry with Tess Gallagher and Jack Gilbert. She also spent twenty years as a cable television marketing/public relations executive at AMC, Bravo, and IFC.

Currently, she is the co-president and editor of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, a DC-area literary institution. She reviews regional theater for DC Theater Arts and writes a monthly column on the small press world for The Washington Independent Review of Books. For the past three years, she has also organized and judged the annual Bethesda Magazine adult and teen short story contests. When not writing or editing, she leads creative writing workshops at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland and at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington DC, volunteers with the annual Washington Writers Conference, and reads voraciously.

Born in the Bronx and raised in New Rochelle, New York by her father, she now lives in Maryland with her family. Most of all, she writes and is at work on a new novel.

© Caroline Anna Bock 2023