Carla Atherton

Carla Atherton is a writer and compulsive creator. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts in English from the University of Saskatchewan, the work for which was squeezed between writing, mothering, building houses, and starting adventures. She founded and currently edits and manages Cahoots Magazine (cahootsmagazine.com) and intermittently works at Athabasca University (as needed) in their Women's Studies Programme. She also develops and teaches creative writing workshops to people 6-75 and is presently working on several books and projects. Her creative work has appeared in various literary journals, and her thesis-turned-book was published in September 2008 under the title The Poetry of Motherhood. Carla has been an academic, greeting card writer and designer, teacher, researcher, business owner, writer, editor, and publisher. She lives and works on an acreage that she and her family build from the ground up in 2010-11 near Saskatoon with her three children, Nicholas, Olivia, and Isabel, and husband, Brent. Carla can most often be found harried and haggard decked out in a babushka and yoga pants moving lumber, building something, working in the yard, working and researching at the computer, or feeding people (always feeding people!).

Evolve Life Learning is Carla's newest creation, which is a culmination of or her skills, passions, and worldview.