Carmel Mawle has taught piano, self-defense and child safety awareness, as well as traditional Karate and Kobudo (weapons) training. She’s served as executive director of a youth orchestra, and as president of a chamber music organization. A longtime member of the Denver Lighthouse Writers Workshop, she writes from the northern Colorado Rocky Mountains where she lives with her husband and Max, a ten-pound border terrier mix who firmly believes he’s a mountain dog.

Carmel is founder of the nonprofit literary organization, Writing for Peace, and served as Editor-in-Chief of DoveTales, An International Journal of the Arts from 2013-2020. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, her short stories, essays and poetry have been published in literary journals and anthologies, including Smokelong Quarterly and KNOTS Literary Magazine.