Carole Vasta Folley is an award-winning playwright, columnist and writer living in Vermont. She is an epiphany chaser, a lover of phrases that create goosebumps and a stalwart devotee of the power of the written word. A long way from a stuttering girl who rarely spoke, turns out Carole indeed has something to say.

Most recently, her creative nonfiction work, The Right of Rescission, a piece featured in CONTROL TOP, was published by Hippocampus Magazine. Carole is a finalist for the Vermont Writer’s Prize, Writer’s Digest 93rd Annual Writing Competition and the 2025 Women on Writing’s Creative Nonfiction competition. She is currently working on a memoir.

As a playwright, Carole has been reviewed as having the “storyteller gift.” Her work in both comedy and drama speaks to the themes of belonging and “the complicated ways we connect.” Notably, her plays feature older women, fulfilling her mission to create leading roles for women of all ages. 

Carole’s two-woman play, The Seymour Sisters, was recently named the Vermont State Winner by the Clauder Competition, New England's most prestigious playwriting award.  The Seymour Sisters was developed with support from the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and the Vermont Community Foundation’s Arts Endowment Fund. 

Her other plays include Pronouncing Glenn, The Family of Ewe, Alumni Pie, Borrowing Time, Lunch Money and The Sleepover ~ A Comedy of Marriage, which won the 2015 Vermont Playwrights Award.