KAREN PETERSEN has published poetry, short stories, and flash both nationally and internationally. Her poems have been translated into Persian and Spanish, and she has been nominated for numerous prizes, including ten Pushcarts, and most recently long-listed for the UK's international Bridport Prize, Forward Prize, and Australia's Peter Porter Prize. In 2022, her chapbook Trembling, published by Kelsay Books, won the Wil Mills Award, judged by Annie Finch, and her poem "The Price of Love" was nominated for Best of the Net. New work is in The Wallace Stevens Journal and The Cimarron Review. More information can be found at: https: //karenpetersenwriter.com