Karen George is author of five chapbooks, and three poetry collections from Dos Madres Press: Swim Your Way Back (2014), A Map and One Year (2018), and Where Wind Tastes Like Pears (2021). She won Slippery Elm’s 2022 Poetry Contest, and her short story collection, How We Fracture, which won the Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize, was released from Minerva Rising Press in January 2024.
She is the recipient of grants from Kentucky Foundation for Women and Kentucky Arts Council and earned an MFA in Writing from the Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing. Her work appears in Adirondack Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Cultural Daily, Atticus Review, The Ekphrastic Review, and MacQueen’s Quinterly.
She retired from a career as a computer programmer/analyst to write full-time. She lives in Florence, Kentucky, enjoys photography and visiting museums, forests, cemeteries, historic towns, and bodies of water.
Visit her website at:
karenlgeorge.blogspot.com
Paperback: 114 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (August 18, 2024)