Karen L. George

Karen George is author of five chapbooks: Into the Heartland (2011), Inner Passage (2014), The Seed of Me, (2015), The Fire Circle, (2016), and the collaborative Frame and Mount the Sky (2017), 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), and forthcoming Caught in the Trembling Net from Kelsay Books (2024). 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 by Minerva Rising Press (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, NonBinary Review, and The Ekphrastic Review. 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.