About Carmen

Carmen Micsa is a creative nonfiction writer and poet who has earned both her BA and MA degrees in English from Sacramento State University. She is also the Broker/CEO of her own company Dynamic Real Estate. Micsa has published creative nonfiction, a tennis book Change Your Grip on Life Through Tennis, and her two poetry books The Poetics of Running, A Book of Poetry in Motion and Morsels of Love, A Book of Poetry and Short Form. She is now working on her memoir about fighting in the 1989 revolution and the lessons she learned growing up in communism. Micsa is also an avid marathon runner, who ran 14 marathons, including London, Boston, New York, and Chicago. She lives with her husband Catalin, her two teenage children Alex and Sophia, and Peter, her pet bunny in Sacramento, CA.

Photo taken by the race photographers at London Marathon, Oct. 2021