Karen Schubert is the author of The Compost Reader (Accents Publishing 2020) and five chapbooks, including I Left My Wings on a Chair, a Wick Poetry Center chapbook prize winner. Her poetry and interviews have been published in Diode, Water~Stone Review, Terrain.org, AGNI Online, American Literary Review and Best American Poetry blog.  Her awards include the William Dickey Memorial Broadside award, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. She holds an MFA from the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) and is founding director of Lit Youngstown, a literary arts nonprofit in Northeast Ohio.

Website: http://karenschubert.blogspot.com/

Twitter Username: @karen_jedemeure

Publications

• The Compost Reader , Accents Publishing (October 2020)
• Dear Youngstown , NightBallet Press (2019)
• Black Sand Beach , Kattywompus Press (2015)
• I Left My Wings on a Chair , Kent State Press (2014)
• Bring Down the Sky , Kattywompus Press (2011)
• The Geography of Lost Houses , Pudding House Publications (2008)

Awards

• William Dickey Memorial Broadside Contest(2015)
• Kent State Press Open Chapbook Competition(2012)
• Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award(2012)
• Headlands Center for the Arts Writer-in-Residency(2013)

Employment

• Founding Director at Lit Youngstown (January 2015 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing from Youngstown State University (May 2005)
• Master of Arts in English from Youngstown State University (May 2007)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing|Poetry from Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts|Cleveland State University (May 2010)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry