Carla Blank is a writer, editor, director and dramaturge. Her two volume textbook anthology of theater and dance activities, "Live On Stage! (1996, 2000)" was co-authored with Jody Roberts. She is author and editor of the 20th century historical reference "Rediscovering America: The Making of Multicultural America, 1900-2000 (2003)" which carries the imprimatur of Before Columbus Foundation. Her non-fiction book, "Storming the Old Boys’ Citadel: Two Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America (2014)," was co-authored with Canadian architectural historian Tania Martin. A collection of her essays from 2003-2024, "A Jew in Ramallah and other Essays" will be published by Baraka Books November 1, 2024.

With Ishmael Reed, she co-edited the anthologies "Bigotry on Broadway (2021)" and "Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience, Short Fiction, From Then to Now (2009)," and was contributing editor on three other anthologies edited by Reed: "Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002 (2003)"; "MultiAmerica, Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace (1997)"; and "Califia, The California Poetry (1979)".

She is Editorial Director of Ishmael Reed Publishing Company where among the most recent titles she has supervised through production are "Paper Gods and Rebels (2013)," a collection of poetry by Genny Lim; "Courtesans of Founder Hill (2015)" and "Rock Piles Along the Eddy (2017)," the first and second poetry collections by Alaskan Inupiaq and Tlingit writer Ishmael Hope; the posthumous publication of "King Comus," a novel by William Demby (2018); and "Guayacan," a new poetry collection by Victor Hernandez Cruz (2023).