Karen Head

Poet

Augusta, GA
Georgia US
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Author's Bio

Karen Head is the author of our books of poetry: Lost on Purpose, Sassing, My Paris Year, Shadow Boxes, and On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year, as well as the non-fiction book Disrupt This!: MOOCs and the Promises of Technology. She coedited the poetry anthologies Mother Mary Comes to Me: A Pop Culture Anthology and Teaching as a Human Experience: An Anthology of Poetry, and has exhibited several acclaimed digital poetry projects, including her project “Monumental” (part of Antony Gormley’s One and Other Project) which was detailed in a TIMEonline mini-documentary. Her poetry appears in a number of national and international journals and anthologies.

In 2010 Head won the Oxford International Women’s Festival Poetry Prize. She has held residencies at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts-France. She has also taught in study abroad programs in Barcelona, Spain and Oxford, England.

She serves as editor of the international poetry journal Atlanta Review, and as secretary for the Poetry Atlanta Board of Directors. On a more unusual note, she is currently the Poet Laureate of Waffle House—a title that reflects an outreach program to bring arts awareness to rural high schools in Georgia, which has been generously sponsored by Augusta University. For 20 years, Head has been a visiting artist and scholar at the Institute for American Studies at Technische Universität Dortmund in Germany. She was the inaugual Poet Laureate of Fulton County (Georgia), and is the Poet Laureate of Waffle House.

She lives in Georgia.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Mother Mary Comes to Me: A Pop Culture Poetry Anthology (co-editor) (Madville Publishing, 2020)
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Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets (Sundress Publications, 2013)
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The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume V: Georgia (Texas Review Press, 2013)
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Java Monkey Anthology: IV (Poetry Atlanta Press, 2012)
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We Don't Stop Here (Private Press, 2008)
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We Don't Stop Here: An Anthology of Poems Inspired by David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (Private Press, 2008)
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Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox (Xavier Review Press, 2006)
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Knoxville Bound (Metropulse Publishing, 2004)
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Breathing the Same Air (Celtic Cat Publishing, 2001)
Books:
Lost on Purpose (Iris Press, 2019)
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MOOCs and the Promises of Technology (University Press of New England, 2017)
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Teaching as a Human Experience: An Anthology of Poetry (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015)
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On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year (Poetry Atlanta Press, 2014)
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Sassing (WordTech Communications, 2009)
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My Paris Year (All Nations Press, 2008)
Chapbook:
Shadow Boxes (All Nations Press, 2003)
Journals:
American Life in Poetry
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Blue Fifth Review
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Cafe Solo
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Chattahoochee Review
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Connecticut River Review
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flashquake
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Ouroboros Review
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Plainsongs
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Poets & Artists
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Women's Review of Books
Prizes won: 

2010 Oxford International Women’s Festival Poetry Prize

2008 Editors' Choice for Excellence in Poetry for My Paris Year

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Atlanta, GA
Georgia
Raised in: 
Many places
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Last update: Jan 24, 2024