Karina Borowicz

Karina Borowicz is the author of "Proof" (2014), winner of the Codhill Press Poetry Prize and a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her début collection, "The Bees Are Waiting" (2012), won the Marick Press Poetry Prize, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the First Horizon Award and was named a Must-Read by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Her poems have appeared widely in journals, including AGNI, Columbia Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Southern Review and have been featured in Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Ted Kooser's "American Life in Poetry" Series. She has published translations from the Russian and the French. Trained as an historian, Borowicz also holds an MFA in Writing from the University of New Hampshire. She makes her home in the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts.