Selected by Alexis Rhone Fancher, Poetry Editor
Most Recent: July 21, 2022
Karen L. George is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet from Florence, Kentucky, author of five chapbooks, and three full collections from Dos Madres Press: Swim Your Way Back (2014), A Map and One Year (2018), and Where Wind Tastes Like Pears (2021). Her work has appeared in Adirondack Review, Louisville Review, Naugatuck River Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Sheila-na-gig, Salamander, Indianapolis Review, and Poet Lore. She’s received grants from Kentucky Foundation for Women and Kentucky Arts Council, and holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University. She retired from a career as a computer programmer/analyst to write full-time. She enjoys photography and visiting museums, cemeteries, historic towns, gardens, and bodies of water. She is doing final edits on an ekphrastic manuscript inspired by the art of Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Emily Carr. Visit her website at: https://karenlgeorge.blogspot.com/.