Karen L. George

Karen L. 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 is the recipient of grants from Kentucky Foundation for Women and Kentucky Arts Council. She won Slippery Elm’s 2022 Poetry Contest, and her short story collection, “How We Fracture,” which won the Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize, is forthcoming from Minerva Rising Press in January 2024.

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My poem “Ode to Edges” won Inscape Journal's "Ode" poetry contest: Writing Contests – Inscape

My short story titled "Ripping Off the Bandage" was included in Sheila-Na-Gig Editions' short fiction anthology, The Last Word & Other Stories, edited by John Bullock. https://sheilanagigblog.com/.../the-last-word-other-stories/

My poem “Headlong” was included in the latest issue of Thimble Literary Magazine. Headlong

My prose poem “Ode to Knots,” inspired by Arthur Briscoe's 1926 "Ten Knots" appeared in The Ekphrastic Review. Ode to Knots, by Karen George - The Ekphrastic Review

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