About
Carrie Classon’s first career was as an actor, working in Equity theaters on both coasts and founding a theater under a Small Professional Theaters contract. In her second career, she received an MBA and went on to present feasibility study findings and market project proposals in Central Asia and West Africa.
Now in her third career, Carrie completed an MFA writing program at the University of New Mexico. She sold her memoir, Blue Yarn, to a small press in 2018. Also in 2018, Carrie launched her weekly column, The Postscript. In 2020, it was chosen for syndication by Andrews McMeel Universal.
Carrie has written more than 500 columns, two plays, and several live shows based on her writing. Carrie’s first work of fiction is currently out on submission.
Featured Work
Blue Yarn
In the space of a few days, Classon lost her marriage of 22-years, her business career, and her home—then her attorney wrote to inform her she might be wanted by the Nigerian police. She is blindsided by the losses and realizes the story she painstakingly knit together over the past two decades—the story explaining her life and who she is—has unraveled.
With no plan for the future and only her deaf cat, Lucy, for company, Carrie decides to remain in Africa until she figures out what has just happened.
What happens next is an awkward, amusing, and ultimately inspiring journey as Carrie slowly lets go of who she thought she was and starts from scratch at middle-age: making unlikely friends, acquiring dump trucks, tumbling into an improbable love affair, and eventually learning to listen to the elusive and sometimes annoying voice helping her discover who she is, find the neglected artist inside, and piece together her unexpected new life.
