Karen Volkman was born in Miami. Her first book of poems, Crash’s Law (Norton, 1996) was
selected for the National Poetry Series by Heather McHugh. Her poems have appeared in The
Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Partisan Review, and the 1996 and 1997 editions of
The Best American Poetry. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for
the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. Karen Volkman has reviewed books for The Harvard
Review, The Boston Review, and The Voice Literary Supplement. She teaches creative
writing at New York University and works with Teachers & Writers Collaborative teaching poetry
in the public schools. She lives in Brooklyn, and spent Spring 1998 in residence at the
Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.
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