Carla Barger

Carla Barger is an ecolyric poet and essayist who hails from the farmlands of southwest Ohio. She holds an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and attended the PhD program at SUNY Binghamton. She’s currently Visiting Assistant Professor at University of South Dakota and A.B.D. in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois Chicago. 

Carla’s creative work explores place and landscape, spectrality, liminality, transgenerational trauma, and our degradation of nature and each other. She often incorporates elements of folklore. Carla has a keen interest in environmental and public humanities and uses digital tools to create interdisciplinary public-facing projects that marry poetry and research in various fields. She also sometimes collaborates with visual artists, scholars, and other writers on various types of projects.