Karen George

Poet

Florence, KY

Kentucky US

Website:

karenlgeorge.blogspot.com/

Twitter/X:

@karenlgeo

Author's Bio

Karen George is author of five chapbooks, and the poetry collections: Swim Your Way Back (2014), A Map and One Year (2018), Where Wind Tastes Like Pears (2021), and forthcoming Caught in the Trembling Net (2024). She received grants from Kentucky Foundation for Women and Kentucky Arts Council, earned a BS in Computer Science, an MFA from Spalding University, and worked as a computer programmer/analyst. Her poetry has appeared in Valparaiso Poetry Review, South Dakota Review, Naugatuck River Review, I-70 Review, Verse Daily, and Poet Lore. She reviews poetry at Poetry Matters blog.

Education:

Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University MFA

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Pandemic Evolution (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2021)

Riparian (Dos Madres Press, 2018)

Books:

Where Wind Tastes Like Pears (Dos Madres Press, 2021)

A Map and One Year (Dos Madres Press, 2018)

Swim Your Way Back (Dos Madres Press, 2014)

Chapbooks:

Frame and Mount the Sky (collaborative) (Finishing Line Press, 2017)

The Fire Circle (Blue Lyra Press, 2016)

The Seed of Me (Finishing Line Press, 2015)

Inner Passage (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014)

Into the Heartland (Finishing Line Press, 2011)

Journals:

America

Blue Heron Review

Gingerbread House

Heron Tree

Juniper - A Poetry Journal

Lime Hawk

Louisville Review

MacQueen’s Quinterly

Main Street Rag

Mom Egg Review

Mezzo Cammin

Naugatuck River Review

Panoply

Rogue Agent

Sliver of Stone

Still

TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics

The Indianapolis Review

Thimble Literary Magazine

Tipton Poetry Journal

Unlost

Valparaiso Poetry Review

Verse Daily

Verse-Virtual

Writing in a Woman's Voice

Prizes won:

My short story collection, How We Fracture, won Minerva Rising Press's Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize
Slippery Elm's 2022 Poetry Prize
Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women
Individual Artist Professional Development Grant from the Kentucky Arts Council

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

American

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Kentucky

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Last update: Dec 19, 2023