Carol Edgarian

Carol Edgarian has been an author, journalist, editor, publisher and teacher for more than thirty years. Her novels include the recent New York Times bestseller Three Stages of Amazement, about which The Daily Beast wrote, “Edgarian’s sharp, beautiful prose captures the essence of the human condition in all its pain and glory."

Carol is also the author of the international bestseller Rise the Euphrates, hailed by theWashington Post as "a book whose generosity of spirit, intelligence, humanity, and finally ambition are what literature ought to be and rarely is today." Her articles, essays, and interviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, NPR, W, and Travel & Leisure, among others. She is coeditor of the popular collection drawn from great writers' diaries, The Writer's Life: Intimate Thoughts on Work, Love, Inspiration, and Fame.

In 2003, Carol and Tom Jenks founded Narrative (www.NarrativeMagazine.com), the first online periodical to publish quality literature. Today Narrative is the leading digital platform for storytelling; via its Web site and mobile apps, Narrative publishes more than three hundred artists every year, including Pulitzer Prize winners, Poet Laureates, and the best new and emerging authors of the day. Often referred to as "literature's PBS," Narrative's modern library of thousands of stories, poems and essays is available to readers and students everywhere for free.

Carol is a frequent speaker/panelist at conferences and forums. Early in her career, when Silicon Valley was first exploding, Carol worked as a speechwriter for high-tech entrepreneurs and Fortune500 CEO's. Carol is a graduate of Phillips Academy and Stanford University. She and her husband live in San Francisco with their three daughters.