About
Karyna McGlynn is writer, educator, and collagist. Her most recent book 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse (Sarabande 2022) is a 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. Karyna holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Creative Writing & Literature from the University of Houston. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, The New England Review, Ploughshares, and The Kenyon Review. Her honors include the Hopwood Award in Poetry, the Inprint Paul Verlaine Prize in Poetry, the Rumi Prize for Poetry, the Florida Review Award in Fiction, a Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship, and a Scholastic Art & Writing National Educator Award. Karyna is the Director of Creative Writing at Interlochen Center for the Arts. She is the 2023-2024 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Poetry in the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan.
