Karen George is author of the poetry chapbooks Into the Heartland (Finishing Line Press, 2011) and Inner Passage (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014). She has received grants from The Kentucky Foundation for Women and The Kentucky Arts Council. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Louisville Review, Memoir, Tupelo Press 30/30 Website, Cortland Review, Permafrost, Blue Lyra Review, Slippery Elm, Wind, and Still. She holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University, and has taught fiction writing at The University of Cincinnati. She is co-founder and fiction editor of the online literary and art journal, Waypoints.