Karen L. George is author of five chapbooks, and three collections from Dos Madres Press: Swim Your Way Back (2014), A Map and One Year (2018), and Where Wind Tastes Like Pears (2021). She won Slippery Elm’s 2022 Poetry Contest, and is the recipient of grants from Kentucky Foundation for Women and Kentucky Arts Council. Her short story collection, How We Fracture, won the Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize, and is forthcoming from Minerva Rising Press in January 2024. Her work appears in Adirondack Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Louisville Review, Verse Daily, Cultural Daily, Indianapolis Review, Salamander, Poet Lore, and Hemingway Shorts Vol 6 as a contest finalist. She reviews poetry and interviews poets at Poetry Matters blog.
She earned bachelor degrees in English and Computer Science, an MFA in Writing from the Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing, and 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.
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