Sandy Carlson was appointed to a three-year term as poet laureate of Woodbury, CT, by the Woodbury Public Library in the fall of 2021. She bee published in numerous magazines and anthologies, and has published for volumes of poems. Carlson can trace her family roots to among the earliest settlers of the state and Woodbury. She is passionate about her family and its history, teaching, and poetry. She is a member of the Connecticut Poetry Society, the National Academy of Poets, Daughters of the American Revolution, the Friends of Riverside Cemetery, and the Woodbury Historical Society.

Sandy publishes lyric poetry videos to her website at sandycarlson.net/poet-laureate and the Woodbury Public Library's poet laureate's page. Her collections of poetry - Slow Passage Home, Always True, Seventeen Park Lane, and Silent Spaces - are available on Amazon.