Karen Kelsay

Karen Kelsay is the editor for the online poetry journal, The Orchards Poetry Journal. She also owns Kelsay Books, a rapidly growing poetry publishing company. Karen’s poems have been printed in a variety of formalist and free verse journals. She has authored several books and chapbooks: Lavender Song (Fortunate Childe Publications 2011), In Spite of Her (Flutter Press 2010), Song of the Bluebell Fairy (Pudding House Publications 2010), A Fist of Roots (Pudding House Publications 2009), Somewhere Near Evesham (The New Formalist 2009), and two full length collections, Dove on a Church Bench (Punkin House 2011), and Amytis Leaves Her Garden (White Violet Press 2012),

Of Omens the Flitter (Big Table Publishing 2018).

Karen has been published in numerous anthologies, including Fire in the Pasture (Peculiar Pages 2011) a collection of 21st century Mormon poets. In 2012, she received the Fluvanna award from The Lyric, and she is a six-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Karen has been the featured poet in many magazines including: The New Formalist, The Nervous Breakdown, Russell Bittner's Poet's Corner, Kin Poetry Journal, A Motley Vision and Thick with Conviction and The HyperTexts. Her picture and biography can be found at The Poetry Foundation's website and Karenkelsay.com