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Carla Sameth’s debut memoir, 'One Day on the Gold Line' was published July 18, 2019. Her work on blended/unblended, queer, biracial and single parenting appears in a variety of literary journals and anthologies including: Collateral Journal; The Nervous Breakdown, Brevity Blog, Brain, Child Magazine, Narratively, Longreads, Mutha Magazine, Tikkun, Entropy, and Pasadena Weekly. Carla’s essay, “If This Is So, Why Am I?” was selected as a notable for the 2019 Best American Essays. She writes about addiction, trauma and resilience with a sense of humor and connection to her readers. Carla was selected to be one of the 2019 Pride Poets with the City of West Hollywood and was a fall 2016 PEN In The Community Teaching Artist. She has taught creative writing to incarcerated youth through WriteGirl. She teaches at the Los Angeles Writing Project at California State University Los Angeles and with Southern New Hampshire University. Carla is a member of the Pasadena Rose Poets who present “poetry within reach and in u