Carla Seidl

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I’ve sometimes called myself a multidisciplinary artist. I’m really just a person who creates. Usually, in a bricolage sort of way.

I grew up on Long Island, where in middle and high school I studied and competed my tail off and got accepted to Harvard, where I designed my own major called Expression and Culture Studies and spent a semester abroad at the Universidad de Chile. Later, I studied documentary radio at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.

I spent much of my 20s exploring different cultures by living and teaching abroad. I served in the Peace Corps three times. I lived in Azerbaijan for over two years, and West Africa (Togo and Benin) for over two years. I have also spent two months or more in Chile, Ecuador, Argentina, and Turkey.

I enjoy and speak various foreign languages: Spanish, French, Azerbaijani. I have also studied a lot of Italian and a little Lama and Russian. I am currently learning Arabic.

Over the years, I have mainly been a writer, an independent radio producer, and a singer-songwriter. I have released two folk albums and an ethnographic memoir, and my work has appeared on Weekend America and The Splendid Table. I have also worked as a private cook, a living history tour guide, an English teacher, a podcast editor, and a girls’ empowerment agent. I led student choruses in Azerbaijan, Togo, and Benin.

I especially delight in dance—both social, partner, and private, meditative styles. In 2013, I earned an MFA from Goddard College in Interdisciplinary Arts, a low-residency program that enabled me to explore that interest alongside writing, music, and radio. 

After returning from West Africa, I settled in Asheville, North Carolina, where I am currently raising my 8-year-old daughter and trying to carve out a meaningful, balanced existence for us both.

Recent Blog Posts

  • New Multi-Character Phone Recs
  • Updated YouTube Channel
  • Revisiting the Fairy Potato
  • A Christmas Song
  • Algerian storytelling song “Raoui”

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