Karen Schubert

Poet

Youngstown, OH
Ohio US
Website: 
www.karenschubertpoetry.com/
Twitter/X: 
@karen_jedemeure

Author's Bio

My poetry collections include The Compost Reader (Accents Publishing) and five chapbooks, and poems, short fiction, essays, creative non-fiction, interviews and reviews in Water~Stone Review, Artful Dodge, diode poetry journal, terrain.org, PoetsArtists, Apple Valley Review, DMQ, Best American Poetry blog, American Literary Review, Poets’ Quarterly, AGNI online and many others. I hold an MFA from the NEOMFA, where I served as editor of Whiskey Island Magazine. I am founding director of Lit Youngstown, a literary arts center in Northeast Ohio. I have been an invited reader, presenter, workshop leader or guest lecturer at numerous community-based and academic venues and conferences.

Education: 
Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Headlands Center for the Arts
Vermont Studio Center

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The Compost Reader (Accents Publishing, 2020)
,
Dear Youngstown (NightBallet Press, 2019)
Chapbooks:
I Left My Wings on a Chair (Kent State University Press, 2014)
,
Bring Down the Sky (Kattywompus Press, 2011)
Prizes won: 

Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council; Residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center; Chapbook I Left My Wings on a Chair selected by Kathleen Flenniken for the Wick Poetry Center Open Chapbook Competition; Poem “Autobiography” selected by Tony Hoagland for the William Dickey Memorial Broadside Contest

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Kimberly Johnson, Bruce Bond, Sandra Steingraber, Gloria Steinem, Hanif Abdurraqib, Ross Gay, Rick Bass, Steve Reese, Philip Metres, Marion Starling Boyer, Michael Pollan... I thank them.
What I'm reading now: 
MaddAdam by Margaret Atwood, She Let Herself Go by George Ella Lyon, A Difficult Grace by Michael Ryan, Empires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler, Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
European American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Portsmouth, OH
Ohio
Raised in: 
Buffalo, NY
New York
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Last update: Jun 27, 2022