Karen Volkman was born in Miami and received her B.A. from New College in Sarasota, Florida, and an M.A. from Syracuse University. Her first book, Crash’s Law, was a National Poetry Series selection, published by W.W. Norton in 1996. Her second book, Spar, received the Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2002 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, The Norton Introduction to Poetry, American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics, and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative Writing.
Karen Volkman lived in Brooklyn for five years, teaching at NYU, the New School, and the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, as well as working as a poet-in-the-schools with Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She has held visiting positions in MFA programs at the University of Alabama, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia College Chicago, and was the Springer Poet in Residence at University of Chicago from 2001-2003. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Akademie Schloss Solitude, the Poetry Society of America, and the Bogliasco Foundation, and will be a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome in June 2007. She currently teaches in the MFA writing program at the University of Montana in Missoula.
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