Caroline Wampole is a writer, artist, musician, and performer who lives in Montague, Massachusetts. In a previous life she was the co-founder of and bass player and singer for the rock-funk band Big Soul, which had a platinum record in France in the 1990s. She has also been an art teacher, improv theater director, documentary filmmaker, and expat painter in Paris. Her essays have been published or are forthcoming in The Forge Literary Magazine and The Carolina Quarterly. She is currently writing a memoir about how playing in a rock band led her to her true home of art.