Carly Mathas Carly Mathas, born and raised in New Orleans, is mostly found spending her time writing non-fiction essays and poems about her childhood, her mother, and her daunting fear of what life has to offer. If she is not writing, then you can find her reading everything but the assignments she is given. She has won a silver key in scholastic for her short memoir about the life of a New Orleans citizen and as well has been published in UMBRA for a multitude of poems.