CAROLE BUGGÉ (CAROLE LAWERENCE, C. E. LAWRENCE, ELIZABETH BLAKE) has too many pen names.  She has published sixteen novels, six novellas and several dozen short stories and poems, many appearing in translation internationally. Her most recent novel, Cleopatra’s Dagger, was nominated for an Edgar Award as Best Original Paperback.  She has also recently published Pride, Prejudice and Poison, under the pen name Elizabeth Blake.

Her play Strings Attached was recently produced Off Broadway on Theatre Row by The Pulse Theatre. Winner of both the Euphoria Poetry Competition and the Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Award, she is a two time Pushcart Poetry Prize nominee and First Prize winner of the Maxim Mazumdar Playwriting Competition, the Chronogram Literary Fiction Prize, Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Award, and the Jean Paiva Memorial Fiction Award.  She was a finalist in the McClaren, MSU and Henrico Playwriting Competitions, and was nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award. Her plays and musicals have been presented nationally and internationally.  She was sponsored by The Paper Mill Playhouse for a TCG Playwriting Award two years in a row, and was a Playwriting Fellowship finalist at Manhattan Theatre Club.  Her most recent musical is Murder on Bond Street, which is based on a true story. 

She was Featured Composer at the Broadway Songbook at Lincoln Center, and Featured Poet in both China Grove Literary Magazine and Quill and Parchment Poetry Magazine. She is a Fellow of Hawthornden International Writers Retreat, and was Writer in Residence at Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Lacawac Sanctuary and Karuna Colony.  She teaches writing at NYU and Gotham Writers Workshop, as well as the Cape Cod and San Miguel Writers Conferences.  She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Authors Guild, Sisters In Crime, International Thriller Writers, and Mystery Writers of America.

She is a magna cum laude graduate of Duke University with honors in English, where she received the award for Outstanding Senior English Major upon graduation.

In a past life, she made a living acting and doing improv comedy and is a self-described science geek. She also founded The Montclair Maulers, the first women’s rugby team in New Jersey. They did not win a single game for three seasons.  She can often be found hunting mushrooms in the woods or playing Bach on the piano when no one is listening.