Karen Poppy

 Karen Poppy (she/her; non-binary), is a poet and author,  an attorney licensed in California and Texas, and a lyricist/librettist with work featured on a Grammy-nominated CD and several collaborations on individual songs, choral works, operas and musicals. Poppy’s second full-length poetry collection, A Spring of Resilient Light, is published in August 2026 by The Poetry Box. Her debut full-length poetry collection, Diving at the Lip of the Water, is published by Beltway Editions (2023), and is lauded by the legendary Judy Grahn for its demonstration of "paradox and power." She has three published poetry chapbooks: Crack Open/Emergency, our own beautiful brutality, and Every Possible Thing.