Karyna McGlynn is a writer, professor, and collagist. She is the author of three poetry collections from Sarabande Books: 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse (2022), Hothouse (2017), and I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl (2009). Karyna holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, a PhD in Creative Writing & Literature from the University of Houston, and a Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing Fellowship. Recent honors include a New York Times Editor's Choice, the Rumi Prize for Poetry, and the Florida Review Editors' Award in Fiction. With Erika Jo Brown and Sasha Debevec-McKenney, she's co-editing the anthology Clever Girl: Witty Poetry by Women. She's also designing a collaged tarot deck called Paper Arcana. Karyna is the Director of Creative Writing at Interlochen Center for the Arts.

Website: www.karyna.io

Twitter Username: @karynamcglynn

Publications

• I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl , Sarabande Books (2009)
• Scorpionica , New Michigan Press (2007)
• Alabama Steve , Sundress Press (2014)
• Hothouse , SarabandeBooks (2017)
• 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse , Sarabande Books (April 2022)
• The 9-Day Queen Gets Lost On the Way to the Execution , Willow Springs Books (2016)

Employment

• Director of Creative Writing at Interlochen Center for the Arts (June 2022 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English and Creative Writing from Seattle University (May 2005)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing--Poetry from University of Michigan (May 2007)
• Doctoral Degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from University of Houston (May 2015)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Playwriting, Screenwriting, Children's literature , Poetry