About Caroline Wellman
Caroline Wellman is a writer and poet who grew up near the Mississippi River and now resides on land that was once home to the Sauk people. She has advanced degrees in creative writing and American literature and has taught literature and writing at various colleges. Recently, she has been teaching journalism and creative writing to middle school students. Her poetry will be featured in upcoming anthology Shooting Stars at Sky–The Poetry of Play and she will have three poems published in an upcoming anthology named Missing Pieces. In her free time, Caroline sorts mail for the local postal service and enjoys spending time the by Mississippi River.
Praise for Presences
“Death has no dominion in the quiet, alert verse of Presences. Everything that was and is lives: the people, the animals, the rocks, and the water…. Every poem in Presences acknowledges the Midwestern prairie, its treacherous weather, its torn body, its ‘scant consolation.’ The poet has accepted the truth of the prairie and is at peace with it, as Black Hawk was when he journeyed across the water.
--Judy Swann, Portage Magazine