Pearl L. Karrer

Poet

Palo Alto, CA

California US

Author's Bio

A former microbiologist from Cornell working on cancer research in California, I now teach piano, exhibit art in juried shows and write poetry. I am an editor and proof reader for the California Quarterly, a poetry journal in its 40th year.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Child of my Child (Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises, 2010)

Tree Magic: Nature's Antennas (SunShine Press Publications, 2005)

Hello, Goodbye (July Literary Press, 2004)

Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Places (John Gordon Burke Publications, 2000)

Book:

Weathering (Slapering Hol Press, 1993)

Journals:

Artword Quarterly

Bayou Magazine

Berkeley Poetry Review

Black Buzzard Review

Buckle &

Burning Cloud Review

Caesura

California Quarterly

Clackamas Literary Review

Coffee & Chicory

Concrete Wolf

Devil's Millhopper

Dexter Review

GAIA

Green Fuse

Ibis

International Poetry Review

Into the Teeth of the Wind

Jabberwock Review

Liberty Hill Poetry Review

MacGuffin

Manzanita Quarterly

New Voices

Northern Contours

Pacific Coast Journal

Poets On

Red Owl

Red Wheelbarrow

Runes: A Review of Poetry

Slant

Steam Ticket

Sunrust

The Lucid Stone

Visions International

Whetstone

White Pelican Review

Prizes won:

The Thorn Fence (poems of Africa) published by Finishing Line Press 2008

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

Jacobson's Organ & the Remarkable Nature of Smell by Lyall Watson, A Natural History of Seeing by Simon Ings, Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks, Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer, In the Body of Our Lives by Jeanne Wagner

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Adults

Fluent in:

English

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Last update: Jul 07, 2011