About
Karyna McGlynn is writer, educator, and collagist. Her most recent book 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse (Sarabande 2022) was a 2023 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Other books include Hothouse, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice, and I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, which was awarded the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry from Sarabande Books. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, New England Review, and Kenyon Review. Karyna is a graduate of the Helen Zell Writers' Program at University of Michigan, where she was awarded the Hopwood Award in Poetry. She earned a PhD in Creative Writing & Literature from the University of Houston and was a fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She is the Director of Creative Writing at Interlochen Center for the Arts, and is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Poetry in the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan.
Her teaching/research areas include modern and contemporary poetry, creative nonfiction, humor, spoken word, romantic lit, and the queer gothic.
