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 Carla
Funk was born and raised in the village of Vanderhoof, the geographical centre of
B.C. Having grown up in a world of logging trucks, Mennonites, storytellers and
rural realism, she turned to poetry as a place to set down the images of her upbringing.
Since studying writing and English literature at the University of Victoria, her
work has been featured in the anthologies Breathing Fire: Canada’s Young Poets
(Harbour, 1995), Hammer & Tongs (Smoking Lung, 1999), Introductions:
Poets Present Poets (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2001), in various literary
journals, and as part of the Poetry in Transit series.
Her first collection of poems,
Blessing the Bones into Light came out with Coteau Books in 1999. Nightwood
Editions published Head Full of Sun in 2002. Her third poetry collection,
The Sewing Room, was published in December 2006 by Turnstone Press, and her work appears in Half in
the Sun, an anthology of West Coast Mennonite writing.
In June 2006, Carla was appointed Victoria's inaugural Poet Laureate. She makes her home
in Victoria with her husband and daughter, and teaches in UVic’s Department of Writing.
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