Biography
Karen Fish is the author of three poetry collections, The Cedar Canoe (University of Georgia), What Is Beyond Us (Harper/Collins) and No Chronology, (University of Chicago). Fish has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship to
the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and was a visiting lecturer at Princeton
University. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines including: The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Yale Review, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The New Republic, and Slate.
For many years, Fish participated in a reading group at the Women's State Prison at
Jessup. She is the founding director of the Modern Masters Reading Series, sponsored
by the Center for the Humanities of Loyola University. Her third collection of poems, No Chronology, published Spring '21 was recently selected as "Must-Read Poetry for March 2021" by
The Millions. As one reviewer noted, "Told aslant, with exquisite lyricism and incandescent
imagery, No Chronology is a beautiful, thrilling book of poems."
Courses Taught
- WR100 Effective Writing
- WR230 The Art of Poetry & Fiction
- WR340 Poetry
- WR342 Advanced Poetry
- WR400 Senior Seminar