About Carol Ann Castagna

  About Carol Ann Castagna

 I am a Christian author, a pianist, an artist and an R.N. Clinician. Married for 10 beautiful years to my husband,    Vincent, together we have four children, ten grandchildren and three great grand-children.

I am currently the pianist for our church in North Port, Fl and share a Christian Website, http://www.joypsalms.com which offers my devotionals, poetry, prayers and original music and lyrics. My specialty in the field of nursing was psychiatry. As a Clinician, in the emergency rooms, in the community, and in the intensive outpatient setting, I evaluated patients and recommended treatment for them.  I loved every minute of my work. My last position was in the geriatric-psychiatry setting as a coordinator of patient care.I loved my work because I considered it my calling...and brought the compassion of Christ to those who were physically ill and emotionally unstable from addictions or other debilitating afflictions.

Today, I am quite content in my retirement, doing the things I longed to do one day. I have just completed writing, A Kiss from God, a book of original poetry. This book is a compilation of poems that I have written through the years. I have been published in the Amhurst Anthology and the Library of Congress Anthology as well as several Nursing publications. Almost a dozen of my poems were honored in the Art for the Cure competition at the New Britain American Museum of Art in Connecticut, a juried- contest. Most recently my poems graced the pages of Penned from the Heart and Poetry Pacific, an e-zine.