MORE ABOUT CAROLINE ANNA BOCK

Caroline Anna Bock is the author of the forthcoming novel THE OTHER BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE (Regal House Publishing), a workplace love story, and her first novel for adults. It is scheduled to be published on June 2, 2026. Read about the inspiration for this novel here — and stay tuned for more news on this exciting development.

Bock is also the author of CARRY HER HOME, winner of the Fiction Award from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, and the critically acclaimed young adult novels LIE and BEFORE MY EYES from St. Martin’s Press–with four-starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal. Notably, in the spring of 2025, she released an expertly translated version of LIE in Spanish… LA MENTIRA. READ MORE HERE.

She is the winner of the short story award from Writer magazine and the Adrift Short Story Award from Driftwood Press. Her short work has been published in SmokeLong, Brevity, Bethesda Magazine, Gargoyle, The Grace and Gravity series, and The Hopkins Review, among many other publications.

In 2011, she earned an MFA in Fiction from The City University of New York. She holds an undergraduate degree from Syracuse University, where she studied prose writing with Raymond Carver and poetry with Tess Gallagher and Jack Gilbert. She also spent twenty years as a cable television marketing/public relations executive at USA, AMC, Bravo, IFC, and IFC Films.

She is currently the co-president and editor of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, a DC-area literary institution, and has just co-edited a landmark anthology America’s Future: poetry and prose in response to tomorrow, which Poets & Writers called an anthology of “Joy and resilience amidst the political turmoil of the United States.“ She regularly reviews regional theater for DC Theater Arts and writes a monthly column on the small press world for The Washington Independent Review of Books. When not writing or editing, she leads creative writing workshops at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.

Born in the Bronx and raised by her father in New Rochelle, New York, Caroline Anna Bock now lives in Maryland with her husband, Richard. These days, you can often find her with a novel on Amtrak, on her way to and from visiting her son and daughter in the Philadelphia area.

© Caroline Anna Bock 2025