Karen Morris is a poet and psychoanalyst in private practice in Montpelier, Vermont. She received The Gradiva Award for Poetry (NAAP, 2015) for her full-length collection CATACLYSM and Other Arrangements (Three Stones Press, PA). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including, NY Quarterly Magazine, Chiron Review, Writers Resist, Plainsongs, SWWIM Every Day, Paterson Literary Review. She is a volunteer public educator, Ambassador of Hope for Shared Hope International, concerning the impact of the commercial sex industry in global sex trafficking and sex tourism with children. She is a co-founder and transmitted lay teacher at Two Rivers Zen Community, an on-line practice community. www.tworiverszen.org
