Carolyn Ferrell (born 1962, Brooklyn, New York) is an American short story writer and novelist.

Life

Ferrell graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and City College of New York with an MA. She has lived, worked, and studied in West Berlin, Manhattan, and the South Bronx. She is married to and has children with psychology professor Linwood Lewis.

Her work has appeared in The Literary Review, Callaloo, Fiction, and Sojourner: The Women’s Forum.

Awards

Susan Richards Shreve, ed. (2003). "A Child's Garden of Verse". Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-618-37902-6.
John Updike; Katrina Kenison, eds. (2000). "Proper Library". The best American short stories of the century. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-395-84367-3.
Elizabeth Merrick, ed. (2006). This is not chick lit: original stories by America's best women writers. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8129-7567-3.
Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, ed. (2003). "Wonderful Teen". Shaking the tree: a collection of new fiction and memoir by Black women. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-05067-7.

^ Yolanda Williams Page, ed. (2007). Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-33429-0.
^ Writing Faculty sarahlawrence.edu
^ "Proper Library by Carolyn Ferrell on Writing Atlas — Short Story Summary". writingatlas.com. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
^ Ferrell, Carolyn. "Carolyn Ferrell: Sarah Lawrence College Faculty Page". Sarah Lawrence College. Archived from the original on 2020-09-27. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
^ "Dear Miss Metropolitan". Macmillan Publishers. Archived from the original on 2021-02-09. Retrieved 29 June 2021.

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