Carla Coffman is from Baltimore, Maryland, but has lived most of her life in West Virginia. Her first job was at The National Geographic in Washington, DC. She went on to serve as Secretary to the Director at a brokerage firm on Wall Street in NYC, and later worked as a real estate broker in Charleston, WV. She has since returned to Nicholas County, where she continues to work with the family's insurance agency. She paints and cares for her cats, two Calicos and a Siamese.

Carla got A's in high school journalism, has taken several writing courses over the years, and contributed content at both The National Geographic and the Charleston Newspaper. She has self-published three books: Higgins Hotel, Who's Waldo: The Haunting of Cleo, and Sidewalk in the Sky, the first she published under a pen name.

Her stories are drawn from real experience — the people she has met, the places she has worked, and the mysteries she has lived through. She writes to make sense of life's chaos and to find humor in the darkness. Her personal motto: "Live and let live."