Carl Little is the author of more than thirty art books, including The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent, Nature & Culture: The Paintings of Joel Babb, and Irene Olivieri: Closer to Wildness. His reviews, articles, and essays appear in Hyperallergic, Art New England, Maine Arts Journal, Island Journal, and Ornament. In 2021 the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Award for his art writing. Little is the author of Ocean Drinker: New & Selected Poems (Deerbrook Editions, 2006). His second collection, Blanket of the Night, will be out in 2024. His poetry has appeared most recently in the Lowell Review, Café Review, and Maine Sunday Telegram. His poems have been featured in several anthologies edited by Wesley McNair as well as in 3 Nations Anthology: Native, Canadian & New England Writers. He lives and writes on Mount Desert Island.