Karen L. George is author of the poetry collection Swim Your Way Back (Dos Madres Press, 2014), and five chapbooks, most recently The Fire Circle (Blue Lyra Press, 2016), and an ekphrastic collaborative chapbook, Frame and Mount the Sky (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in the journals Adirondack Review, Naugatuck River Review, Sliver of Stone, Blue Fifth Review, Heron Tree, and Still. She reviews poetry and interviews poets at Poetry Matters, and is co-founder and fiction editor of the journal, Waypoints.

Books by Karen L. George:

Other poems on the web by Karen L. George:
"Figment"
"Conversations"
"Emily Carr's Forest, British Columbia, 1931-2"
"Tanka"

Karen L. George's Website.

Karen L. George on Twitter.

About A Map and One Year:

"Traveling through the pages of A Map and One Year, I became convinced that Karen George has somehow managed to channel the mystic luminous language of our poetry deities. These poems sparkle with wit and wisdom."
—Kathleen Driskell

"Karen George's A Map and One Year is as much a love letter to language as it is to the poets and novelists who inspired this collection. Whether in haiku, cinquain, tanka, or open form, these poems breathe—quietly, profoundly, but not without surprise. In doing so, they allow us to dwell in their moment, to catch our own breath in the white space around them. I can't think of a better or more badly needed gift just now."
—Rhonda Pettit

"In her new, bold poems in A Map and One Year, to feel the energy run beneath the poetic 'found-ness' of language is to behold Karen George's pure, wise vision. George splices, stretches, and sculpts texts as wide-ranging as poems by Dickinson, Neruda, and Transtromer to prose by Joyce, Frida Kahlo, and others to cultivate poems rich in dreamscape. The oddities and surprises that rise from this strange, beautiful lyricism possess us. For George, this became a rapturous adventure in linguistic play, and we become rapt participants in her discoveries. It is a transcendent collection not to be missed."
—Jeffrey Hillard