Poetry. "Kevorkian finds the extraordinary in patterns of everyday life. Whether moving through an arid landscape of desert flora, exploring the waving of inflatable tube men, or registering the incessant barking of dogs, her poems discover 'something hidden // in all this'--a wellspring of meaning and wonder. Intimate, loving, and spare, LIZARD DREAM casts the familiar in a brilliant luster"--Joshua Kryah.

Author City: Los Angeles, CA USA

Karen Kevorkian lives in Los Angeles where she teaches poetry and fiction writing workshops at UCLA.Her new poetry collection is LIZARD DREAM, published by What Books Press, the imprint of the Glass Table Collective, a group of predominantly Los Angeles-based artists and writers.Her first poetry collection, White Stucco Black Wing, was published by Red Hen Press of Los Angeles in 2004. Journals publishing Kevorkian's poetry and fiction include Antioch Review, Agni, Massachusetts Review, Quarterly West, Virginia Quarterly Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Mississippi Review, Witness, VOLT, Shenandoah, and Fiction International.Kevorkian has lived in LA since 2008. Before then she taught in the University of Virginia creative writing programfor six years after moving there from San Francisco.