Biography

Karen Glenn moved from New York City to Colorado in 2001. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest as well as Cream City Review, Nimrod, Seattle Review, Southern Humanities Review, National Forum, Water-Stone, ChattahoochieReview, Cricket (the children’s magazine), and many others. North American Review nominated her for a Pushcart Prize. She has been a finalist in the Four Ways Books poetry book contest and the Center for Book Arts poetry chapbook contest. She read her poem Night Shift on NPR’s All Things Considered.

She serves on the board of the Aspen Writers Foundation and runs a poetry reading series at Town Center Booksellers in Basalt. She is also the judge for the bookstore’s annual valley-wide high school poetry contest.

Professionally, she is the writer for the newspaper-in-education program for Parade Magazine, creating a weekly teaching guide to the news. She is also the judge of PARADE’s annual teen poetry contest. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of several magazines for Scholastic, the educational publisher. Scholastic has published two of her mini-novels in its Reading 180 program. Her feminist gothic novel, Master of Greystone, was published by Berkley, and she has had articles in magazines from Living Fit and McCalls to Seventeen, Aspen Magazine and Mademoiselle.

A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Karen also holds a Masters of Library Science from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. In San Diego, she served as a poet-in-the-schools and was a co-founder of the poetry magazine, Antenna.