About Me...
Carolyn Boyles
Although not new to writing, Carolyn Boyles is a new freelance writer. She wrote business cases for universities and corporations for some twenty years before being forced to retire on disability after sustaining a spinal cord injury in an auto accident. Before her retirement, Boyles had articles published in College & University, Research in Higher Education, and The Paralegal.
Now a C3-7 incomplete quadriplegic, Boyles began her second career as a full-time freelance writer and photographer by writing a “handbook” on recovering from and living with a spinal cord injury. Her book, A Complete Plain English Guide to Living with an Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury, is forthcoming in early 2008. She has begun research on her second book, which deals with disability and self-employment.
Boyles has one short story online in Audacity Magazine, an online magazine for people with disabilities. She has a short story coming out in the October/November/December issue of The Storyteller. She has a non-fiction short story in Echoes of the Ozarks, Vol. III. Boyles will have a poem and photograph of the Old Mill in North Little Rock in the forthcoming book about notable sites in Arkansas by the Arkansas Pen Women. Her poem “At Dusk” appears on the Medtronic Corporation’s “Exploring Spasticity” 2007-2008 calendar. Her short story, "A Call For Help" is on Amazon Shorts.
Boyles has a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Illinois, Urbana. Her MBA is in marketing from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She has attended law school, and has completed graduate level courses in sociology at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Boyles has written for The Daily Illini in Champaign, Illinois, and for the Augusta Advocate/McCrory Leader newspapers in Augusta and McCrory, Arkansas.
Boyles is a member of the White County Creative Writers, Fiction Writers of Central Arkansas, the Ozark Writers League, the Illini Media Alumni, the PenPoint Writers Group, and a friend of the Arkansas Pen Women. She writes both fiction and non-fiction.
She and her husband, Raymond, live in Arkansas with their four cats. One of the cats sleeps in her lap while she writes at her computer.