Carla Galdo is a poet, writer, and editor. She has written for a variety of publications, including Well-Read Mom, Humanum: Issues in Family, Culture, and Science, Notre Dame Magazine Online, Our Sunday Visitor, Front Porch Republic, and others. Her poetry has appeared in Dappled Things, Modern Age, New Verse Review, Solum Journal, and on Irish Southeast Radio. She is the recipient of the 2024 St. Austin Review Prize for Poetry, and was nominated for a Pushcart prize. She has taught classes in literature, theology, poetry, and book reviewing. Carla earned an MTS from the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family and an MFA in Poetry from the University of St. Thomas-Houston. She and her husband live with their six children on a hobby farm in Virginia, and more of her work can be found at carlagaldo.com.