Carol Handy is a published poet and has written speeches and articles on the Bahá'í Faith, along with a widely read Bahá'í-themed fairytale called The Dragons of Rizvania. She has served on local Bahá'í institutions and also at the World Center of the Bahá'í Faith in Haifa, Israel, as the editor of the Bahá'í International News Service in 1989 and 1990.