Carly Wheelehan Turnidge is a poet, writer, and farmer. She holds a B.S. in narrative journalism from Boston University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Ashland University, under former director Christian Kiefer, where she studied under the poet Cass Donish.

Originally from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, she now lives in Gilroy, California, an agricultural region south of the San Francisco Bay Area, a fertile valley wedged between coastal redwoods and dry golden hills. There, she runs a regenerative flower farm alongside her husband, the poet Todd Turnidge. She is currently raising two cows, one goat, 85 chickens, and three small humans.

Her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Nimrod International Journal, december magazine, Birdcoat Quarterly, San Pedro River Review, RHINO Poetry, and elsewhere.

Her memoir, Once You Go In: A memoir of radical faith, was published by She Writes Press in 2018.