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Carla Galdo is a poet, writer, and editor who has been featured in a variety of publications including Humanum: Issues in Family, Culture, and Science, Notre Dame Magazine Online, Columbia Magazine, Our Sunday Visitor, Front Porch Republic and Well-Read Mom. Her poetry has appeared in Dappled Things, Modern Age, Solum Literary Journal, New Verse Review, The Windhover, and on Irish Southeast Radio. She is the recipient of the St. Austin Review Prize (2024) and was a finalist in the Catholic Literary Arts Advent Poetry Contest (2022) and Sacred Poetry Contest (2024).

Carla has been featured as a conference speaker for Well-Read Mom, and as a guest on the podcasts Bright Wings and Catholic Culture. She has taught various classes in literature, theology, and book reviewing, and facilitates a Catholic Literary Arts poetry class and workshop for adult writers.

Carla earned a Master’s in Theological Studies from the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, and an MFA in Poetry from the University of St. Thomas-Houston. She and her husband live with their six children on a small hobby farm in Virginia.