Biography
Karen Fish is the author of three poetry collections, The Cedar Canoe (University of Georgia), What Is Beyond Us (Harper/Collins) and No Chronology, (University of Chicago). Fish has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship to
the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and was a visiting lecturer at Princeton
University. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines including: The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Yale Review, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The New Republic, and Slate.
For many years, Fish participated in a reading group at the Women's State Prison at
Jessup. She is the founding director of the Modern Masters Reading Series, sponsored
by the Center for the Humanities of ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ University. Her third collection of poems, No Chronology, published Spring '21 was recently selected as "Must-Read Poetry for March 2021" by
The Millions. As one reviewer noted, "Told aslant, with exquisite lyricism and incandescent
imagery, No Chronology is a beautiful, thrilling book of poems."
Courses Taught
- WR100 Effective Writing
- WR230 The Art of Poetry & Fiction
- WR340 Poetry
- WR342 Advanced Poetry
- WR400 Senior Seminar
