CARLA PERRY, owner of Dancing Moon Press, handles book project development and production, and oversees printing, binding, and delivery of finished books.
She received a BA in Creative Writing/Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, with a minor in Mandarin Chinese and printmaking. She spent the last 25 years as a freelance technical writer, ghostwriter, grant writer and photographer.
Former clients include Intel Corporation, Sequent Computers, Bonneville Power Administration, hospitals, banks, political candidates and the City of Portland, Oregon. She was the co-writer and publisher of Wild Dog Literary Magazine, and editor and publisher of Talus & Scree International Literary Journal.
Perry is the founder of both the monthly Nye Beach Writers’ Series and Writers On The Edge, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to the literary arts. More than 300 literary performances and workshops have been held in Newport, Oregon since June 1997. She was awarded the Oregon Governor’s Art Award and the Stewart Holbrook Special Oregon Book Award for her outstanding contributions to Oregon’s literary life.