This week we welcome Karen Steinmetz as our guest author. Karen is a poet and novelist. Her poems have appeared in The Cortland Review, Coal Hill Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Midwest Quarterly, So To Speak: a Feminist Journal of Language and Art, Illuminations, Poet Lore, and the Still Against War anthologies published by Jamie Stern, Nan Lombardi, and Catherine Woodard in honor of Marie Ponsot. Her poetry manuscript, Little Heretic Gods, was a finalist for the 2010 Washington Prize and a semi-finalist for the Four Way Books Intro Prize. Her young adult novel, The Mourning Wars, was published by Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan in 2010. She earned her B.A from New York University and her MA and MFA in poetry from Manhattanville College, where she currently teaches. Karen Steinmetz lives in the Hudson Valley, where she raised two children, Andrew and Kate with her husband Donald, a painter and environmentalist.
Welcome, Karen.
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