Carrie Magness Radna is an archival audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a singer, a lyricist-songwriter and a poet who loves to travel. Her poems have previously appeared in The Oracular Tree, Tuck Magazine, Brownstone Poets Anthology, Riverside Poets Anthology, Muddy River Poetry Review, Mediterranean Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, Shot Glass Journal, Vita Brevis, Home Planet News, Walt’s Corner, Polarity eMagazine, The Poetic Bond (VIII-X), Alien Buddha Press, Jerry Jazz Musician, Cajun Mutt Press, Rye Whiskey Review, First Literary Review-East, Spillwords.com, Litterateur RW, Horror Sleaze Trash, BigCityLit, World Doodles Lit Mag, PoetsUnplugged.com (podcast), Jersey Poets Plus! (podcast), Songs of Selah (radio), The spirit, it travels: an anthology of transcendent poetry (Cosmographia: 2019), and After the clouds, the sun: The Alternative New Year's Defered Spoken Word / Performance Extravaganza: 2021 anthology. Her first chapbook, Conversations with dead composers at Carnegie Hall (Flutter Press: 1st edition; now out-of-print) was published in January 2019, and her second chapbook, Remembering you as I go walking (Boxwood Star Press: self-published) was published in August 2019. Her poetry collections, Hurricanes never apologize (Luchador Press: December 2019) and In the blue hour (Nirala Publications: February 2021), are now available online worldwide on Amazon.com. She won 3rd prize for “The tunnel” (category: Words on the Wall: All-Genre Prompt) at the 69th annual Philadelphia Writers’ Conference (2017). She also won 12th place for “Lily (no. 48 of Women’s names sensual series)” by the 2018 Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards, and Honorable Mention for "all trains are haunted" in the 89th annual Writer's Digest Writer's Competition (Non-rhyming poetry), and a nominee for Best of the Web (2020). Born in Norman, Oklahoma, she is a member of the Greater New York Music Library Association (GNYMLA), and is a member/have read/workshopped for the New York Poetry Forum, Parkside Poets, Riverside Poets, Brownstone Poets and Nomad’s Choir. When she’s not performing classical choral works with Riverside Choral Society or New Year’s Eve performances with the New York Festival Singers, or writing art song lyrics with her choir buddies, or traveling, she lives with her husband Rudolf in Manhattan.
