Karen
Volkman is the author of Crash’s Law
(Norton, 1996), a National Series Selection, and Spar (University of Iowa Press, 2002), which received the Iowa Poetry
Prize and the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her
poems have appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, American Poets
of the 21st Century: The New Poetics, and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative Poetry. Recipient of awards
from the NEA, the Poetry Society of America, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and the
Bogliasco Foundation, she has taught as several universities, including the
University of Alabama, the University of Pittsburgh, University of Chicago, and
Columbia College Chicago. She currently lives in Missoula and teaches at the
University of Montana.
