Carla Stein’s poetry has appeared in a variety of publications including Sustenance (Anvil Press, 2017), Please Hear What I’m Not Saying (Fly on the Wall Press, 2018), Pocket Lint (issue #2, 2021), Centipede-Cha-Cha, (issue #1, 2022), Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine (Volume XII, 2022), The Antholozine (2023 Banff Winter Writers Residency), NonBinary Review (issue #31, 2023), Reedy Branch Review (Vol. 5, 2023). Carla contributed to Quantum Entanglement, a 2023 Pushcart Prize nominated renku. Her chapbook Warp and Weft (Tigerpetal Press) was released in March, 2024. This collection includes her poem, Rituals, which placed third in the 2023 Love the Words contest. Her debut poetry collection, Zero Hour (Silver Bow Publishing), was also released in May, 2024. She is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets, a former artistic director of Wordstorm Society of the Arts and was the editor of Counterflow Magazine from 2021 through 2024.
Carla creates her visual images in a variety of two dimensional water-based media, including acrylics, watercolours, and inks. Her style incorporates translucent glazes with impressionist sensibilities and surrealist imagery. Her work seeks to unlock imagination, spark stories, and invite viewers to examine the ways we currently relate to our environment. She has created illustrations and covers for books including Hairy Hullabaloo with Richard Stevenson (Starship Sloane Publishing Company, Inc., 2024), Eye to Eye with My Octopi (Cyberwit, 2022), and Visiting Uncle Bentley, (Tigerpetal Press, 2024). She has been an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and juried into numerous exhibitions and shows including Arts on the Avenue, Coast Collective and the Ladysmith Fine Arts Show as well as exhibiting in galleries in Victoria, Vancouver, California, New York, Calgary and Toronto. Enthusiastic collectors own her paintings and her images have been featured in both print and on-line publications.
Carla creates her visual images in a variety of two dimensional water-based media, including acrylics, watercolours, and inks. Her style incorporates translucent glazes with impressionist sensibilities and surrealist imagery. Her work seeks to unlock imagination, spark stories, and invite viewers to examine the ways we currently relate to our environment. She has created illustrations and covers for books including Hairy Hullabaloo with Richard Stevenson (Starship Sloane Publishing Company, Inc., 2024), Eye to Eye with My Octopi (Cyberwit, 2022), and Visiting Uncle Bentley, (Tigerpetal Press, 2024). She has been an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and juried into numerous exhibitions and shows including Arts on the Avenue, Coast Collective and the Ladysmith Fine Arts Show as well as exhibiting in galleries in Victoria, Vancouver, California, New York, Calgary and Toronto. Enthusiastic collectors own her paintings and her images have been featured in both print and on-line publications.