Carla Du Pree

2019 Alumna

Cottage: Oak

Bio: Carla Du Pree is an author who writes fiction and also serves as an arts ambassador, a literary consultant, the executive director of an award-winning, nonprofit CityLit Project, and a national advocate of the literary arts. She’s received fellowships for her fiction from Hedgebrook (including a stipend from the Whiting Foundation), Rhode Island Writers Colony for Writers of Color, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Baldwin for the Arts, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and the Poetry Foundation through Furious Flower Poetry Center. Excerpts of her novel-in-progress, ‘Where the Spirit Meets the Bone’ have appeared in The Pierian Literary Journal, Callaloo, and Potomac Review, and is forthcoming in The Ilanot Review. Her short stories have been published in Callaloo, ‘The Spirit of Pregnancy’ and ‘Street Lights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience’. She was also a contributor to ‘Women in Clothes’ and featured in BmoreArt: Quarantine Diaries Literati, and a special issue as a Principle of Abundance. She’s won substantial grants as a Rubys Artist and a Maryland Arts Council Independent Artist grantee, and was awarded the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies 2020 inaugural Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Individual Award for demonstrating outstanding leadership addressing issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in Maryland. She is the Maryland State Department of Education’s Arts Leader for April 2020 and holds a Master's from Johns Hopkins University, where she was a Lecturer for many years in their Part-Time Graduate Writing Seminar.