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Ute Carson has been writing and publishing stories and essays her entire life, developing her unique voice while gaining experiences around the world.
Ute reads her poem I Will Still Miss the Yearning at the Ardent Poetry Reading in Austin, Texas.
Ute reads her poem "Save the Last Kiss" Book Launch (Part 1)
Her first novel, Colt Tailing, has received rave reviews from a broad variety of critics and readers alike. The complex characterizations of women and their world has touched readers like no other novel in recent memory.
Her second novel, In Transit, was very different from the uplifting, heroic and poetic tale of her first book. In Transit follows a highly intelligent young man as he searches for the roots of his sado-masochistic ways in the women he meets on the road, in the wisdom of the POW diary of his uncle, in his own mind which he cannot always control.
Ute continued to plumb her hard-earned wisdom in life, love, and loss in the heartbreaking and poignant Save the Last Kiss: Letters to a Dying Friend, a story told in love letters where her "vivid, poetical language... leaves an indelible imprint on the reader's mind."
In between a stready stream of novels and poetry, Ute has published hundreds of short stories, essays, commentaries, and memoirs throughout her life... some of which are collected in the captivating Gypsy Spirit and Other Stories of Childhood, Nature, Life Choices, Loss, and Love, "an extraordinary mix of memoir, history, photography, and poetry."
Readers of Ute well know that her uniquely eventful life is a core foundation of her work... and now, for the first time in print, Time Did It: A Family Saga tells the amazing true story of her family's harrowing escape from Nazi Germany, an "unflinchingly honest" telling of a personal saga passed down from mother to daughter for generations.
Ute has also published no shortage of acclaimed poetry collections, including the beautiful and profound Just a Few Feathers, the hand-sewn chapbook Folding Washing, the fascinating translations into Romanian and Crimean Tartar of My Gift to Life, the deeply inspiring wisdom of Reflections, the poems exploring nature both inside and out in Listen, and the fleeing moments captured in the amber of Ute's poetry In the Blink of an Eye.
Ute Maria Elisabeth Gräfin von Hardenberg-Carson was born on the Baltic Coast of Pomerania just as World War II descended upon Europe. Fleeing before the Russian army, her family eventually settled in what was to become West Germany. Learn More >
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 | Ute Carson is an Advanced Certified Clinical Hypnotist, and has also written a guide for hypnotists working with children. |