Carla
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Location | Fredericton, N.B, Canada |
| Introduction | I'm a writer, workplace consultant and psychology teacher. My debut novel, published April 2009 by Coach House Books is Amphibian, a novel about an eco-anxious nine year old. Nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh has an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. He knows that if you wet a dog's food with your saliva and he refuses to eat it then he's top dog, and he knows that dolphins can sleep half a brain at a time. What he doesn't know, though, is why his grandfather died, or why waste-of-flesh Lyle always picks on him. Or why his parents can't live together — after all, when other mate-for-life animals have a fight, it's not like one of them just packs his bags and leaves the country. To make it to-infinity worse, he's worried sick about what humans are doing to the planet, and his mother is worried sick about him. But shouldn't everyone be losing sleep over the fact that a quarter of all Earth's mammals are on the Red List of Threatened Species? So, when a White’s tree frog ends up in an aquarium in his fourth-grade classroom, it's the last straw, and he and his best friend, Bird, are spurred to action. |
| Interests | Crows, kids, psychology, writing, alpacas, gardening (I am particularly fond of bee balm, the casings of poppy blooms and clear-winged moths, all of which remind me of Horton Hears a Who). |
| Favorite movies | Recently I saw One Week and loved it! I also enjoyed: Keeping Mum, Everything is Illuminated, Happy-go-Lucky, Burn after Reading, Sliding Doors |
| Favorite music | Fleetwood Mac, David Gray |
| Favorite books | Strawberry Fields, A Complicated Kindness, Fugitive Pieces, The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-Time, She's Come Undone, Lullabies for Little Criminals, A Grammar of Endings, Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good, Very Bad Day, Sunday Morning, Scaredy Squirrel, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish |