Karen Skolfield’s book Frost in the Low Areas (2013) won the 2014 PEN New England Award in poetry and the First Book Award from Zone 3 Press. Skolfield is a 2014 Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow and winner of the 2014 Split This Rock poetry prize and the 2012 Oboh Prize from Boxcar Poetry Review. She is the poetry editor for Amherst Live, a twice-yearly production of poetry, politics, and more, and she’s a contributing editor at the literary magazines Tupelo Quarterly and Stirring. She lives in Amherst with her husband and two kids, and teaches writing to engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she earned her Master of Fine Arts.

Other poems by Karen Skolfield in Verse Daily:
December 25, 2011:   "Frost in the Low Areas" "The health survey said..."

Books by Karen Skolfield:

Other poems on the web by Karen Skolfield:
"Frost in the Low Areas"
Five poems
Fourteen poems
"Two Sisters"
"Chiromancy"
"Ode to the Fan"
"PURGA"
Three poems
"Power Outage: 3 p.m., College of Engineering"

Karen Skolfield's Blog.

About Frost in the Low Areas:

"With Frost in the Low Areas, Karen Skolfield's debut collection, a multi-faceted poet enters our midst. In these well made and welcoming poems Skolfield is a country mouse, a girl in the woods, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a friend, a wife, a soldier and most of all, in her measured lines, a poet of grace, wit and purpose. I love how these poems examine what Skolfield encounters, inviting us in, letting us go renewed and eager and prepared to know more."
—Dara Wier