Karen Loeb

Poet, Fiction Writer

Eau Claire, WI
Wisconsin US
Email: 
loebkaren@gmail.com
Website: 
wfop.org/poets/loebkare.html

Author's Bio

Karen Loeb finished a two-year run May 2020 as Eau Claire, Wisconsin Writer-in-Residence. Retired from teaching creative writing at UW-Eau Claire, she continues to write poetry and fiction. Stories and poems of hers have received an editor’s choice award in the Raymond Carver short story contest, and first place in the Wisconsin People and Ideas 2014 short story contest and the 2016 poetry contest. Her book Jump Rope Queen and Other Stories won a Minnesota Voices Project award. Her stories have also won PEN Syndicated Fiction Prizes, and she is a past recipient of a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in Hanging Loose, Gyroscope Review, New Ohio Review, Volume One, Thema and other magazines. She co-edited the 2020 poetry calendar for the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets of which she’s also a member.

You can find her Snapshots collaboration with a musician and photographer by clicking on the video below.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Anthology:
"What is Discarded" in OWNERSHIP (Imagination & Place Press, 2010)
Book:
Jump Rope Queen & Other Stories (New Rivers Press, 1993)
Journals:
Buffalo Carp
,
Crania OnLine
,
Louisville Review
,
Lullwater Review
,
Paddlefish
,
Paterson Literary Review
,
Phantasmagoria
,
Philosophical Mother
,
South Dakota Review
,
THEMA
,
VerbSap.com
,
Widener Review

Poetry

Anthologies:
Alberto Tells Us About Walnuts (Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 2013)
,
Two-Piece Suite--Lake Michigan 1963 (Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 2012)
,
Walking Jiaou-Jiaou With My Daughter; The Children of the White Swan; Singing Hallelujah; Someone Told Our Daughter a Story About Ducks; Before Our Daughter Learns English; Customs--all in SHIFTING BALANCE SHEETS (Wising Up Press, 2011)
,
Baseball Prose Poem (Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 2011)
,
In the Back Yard Crows Gather in WHAT'S NATURE GOT TO DO WITH ME? (Native West Press, 2011)
,
Zippers in TOUCHING (Fearless Books, 2011)
,
100 Percent Pure Florida Fiction (University of Florida Press, 2000)
,
If I Had a Hammer (Papier-Mache Press, 1990)
Journals:
Bloodroot
,
Cape Rock
,
Chest
,
Florida English Journal
,
Gyroscope Review
,
Hanging Loose
,
Literary Mama
,
Main Street Rag
,
Nerve Cowboy
,
New Ohio Review
,
Otis Nebula
,
Pinyon
,
Spillway Magazine
,
Terracotta Typewriter
,
Third Wednesday
,
Verse Wisconsin
Prizes won: 

PEN Syndicated Fiction Awards (2); Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship; Muse and Triad Prizes from Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets; Fiction Contest first place 2014 Wisconsin People & Ideas; Editor's Choice Award 2014 Carve Magazine; Poetry Contest first place 2016 Wisconsin People and Ideas; radio interview: http://www.wpr.org/listen/954656 click on 18:53 minutes for beginning

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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Gwendolyn Brooks, John Clellon Holmes, Lucille Clifton, Lawson Fusao Inada, Sharon Olds, Jane Austen, Lore Segal, David Rhodes, Jhumpa Lahiri, Emily Dickinson, Sally Rooney, Elizabeth Strout, Julie Otsuka, Louise Erdrich, Kent Haruf, Sherman Alexie, Toni Cade Bambara, Ha Jin, Franz Kafka, Alice Munro, and many others.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Seniors, Teachers, Teenagers, Veterans
Born in: 
Chicago
Raised in: 
Chicago, IL
Illinois
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Last update: Nov 10, 2024