Karen Kelsay has been nominated five times for the Pushcart Prize, and is the author of five chapbooks: In Spite of Her, Song of the Bluebell Fairy, A Fist of Roots, Lavender Song and Somewhere Near Evesham, plus two full length collections: Dove on a Church Bench, and Amytis Leaves Her Garden. She has been published in numerous journals and magazines including Kin Poetry Journal,The Boston Literary Magazine, Lucid Rhythms, The Lyric, The Raintown Review, and The New Formalist, and Mezzo Cammin. She is the founder and editor of Kelsay Books, and lives with her British husband in Valle Vista, California.