Karen Henry

Poet

Sharon, MA
Massachusetts US

Author's Bio

Karen S. Henry co-founded the Boston Theater Group, producing works drawing on Kafka, Ovid, Shakespeare, and contemporary poetry. With composer W. Newell Hendricks, Henry received National Endowment for the Arts grants for opera librettos for The Cell and Ascona. Her essays have appeared in The Massachusetts Review and Fast Famous Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction. Her poems have appeared in Blaze Vox, Cathexis Northwest, The Closed Eye Open, Crosswinds, Nonbinary Review, Pine Row, and Stoneboat, among other journals, and in the anthologies Night Forest: Folk Poetry and Story and Of Our Own Accord. Her chapbook, All Will Fall Away, was published by Finishing Line Press.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Fast Famous Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction (Woodhall Press, 2025)
,
Of Our Own Accord: Women's Embodied Poetry (Flying Ketchup Press, 2024)
,
Night Forest: Folk Poetry & Story (Flying Ketchup Press, 2022)
Chapbook:
All Will Fall Away (Finishing Line Press, 2020)
Journals:
Crosswinds Poetry Journal
, ,
Prizes won: 

National Endowment for the Arts Librettist Grant (for the opera The Cell)

National Endowment for the Arts Librettist Grant (for the opera Ascona)

 

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania
Please note: All information in the Directory is provided by the listed writers or their representatives.
Last update: Jul 27, 2026