Maria Caruso lives with her husband and daughter in Portland, Oregon. She teaches literature and creative writing at Portland Community College.
In 2004, Maria was awarded the 15th New Millennium Nonfiction Prize for her essay, “The Vacationers.”
“I’ve shifted Eleanor Roosevelt’s idea about life, ‘The thing you think cannot do is the thing you must do,’ and applied it to my writing. I try to write about the things I think I can’t bear to write about.”
– Maria Caruso