Karyna McGlynn is the author of I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize from Sarabande Books, as well as the chapbooks Scorpionica and Alabama Steve. Her poems have recently appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Literary Review, Seattle Review, West Branch, Subtropics, Drunken Boat, and The Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day.
Before earning her MFA from the University of Michigan, Karyna was a member of five National Poetry Slam teams and was a finalist at the Women of the World Poetry Slam. Her honors include the Inprint Verlaine Prize in Poetry, the Academy of American Poets' Prize, the Marion Barthelme Award for Journal Editing, the Cullen Foundation Fellowship, a Zell Fellowship in Poetry, and a Hopwood Award. She is currently a PhD candidate in Literature & Creative Writing at University of Houston where she recently served as Poetry Editor and Managing Editor for Gulf Coast. She teaches with WITS Houston and Inprint, and is at work on a book-length poem based on the collages of Max Ernst.
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