About Carina

Carina Costom grew up in Montreal and studied at McGill University. She has been published in The Black Bear Review and the Nelson Star. Carina is a shape shifting emerging writer of  fiction (Short-stories, allegories, fables, radio-plays), creative non-fiction (essays, articles), and poetry.

She has handed out pamphlets in a chicken suit in July, counted ice cream cones, and waitressed. She has also worked as a graphic designer, an employment counselor, a facilitator and as a community-based researcher in the non-profit sector. Carina has volunteered her time in several community-minded and arts-based non-profits.

She now lives in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada with her child and two budgies. She is exploring intermodal expressive arts as a personal practice (stillness, movement, words, paint, song) and dreams of achieving her TKD black belt in the next four years. The Xerophyte is her first short story. Follow her on Facebook.com/CarinaCostom@KootenayAuthor