Carol Hebald was an actress for twelve years on the New York stage before enrolling as an English Major at the City College of CUNY, from where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude in 1969. Subsequently awarded a Teaching and Writing Fellowship in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she received her MFA in 1971. Having taught creative writing at the university level for the next thirteen years, she resigned a tenured associate professorship in English at University of Kansas in 1984 to write full time.

She is the author of the memoir, The Heart Too Long Suppressed (Northeastern University Press, 2001); the novella collection, Three Blind Mice (Unicorn Press 1989), for which she received the 1988 McGraw-Hill Pushcart Prize nomination; and more recently, two poetry collections from March Street Press: Spinster by the Sea (57 pages, 2005) and Little Monologs (28 pages, 2004).

Her poems have been anthologized in Little Brown’s Woman, An Issue, Bantam Books Intro II, and Poems From The Hawkeye State (Iowa State University Press). They have appeared also in Pen International, International Poetry Review, Commonweal, Massachusetts Review, The Humanist, North American Review, Antioch Review, Free Inquiry, Ararat, New Letters and Confrontation.

Her short fiction has appeared in North American Review, New Letters, Cottonwood Review, and Texas Quarterly.