Karen Kelsay

Karen Kelsay is the founder and editor of The Orchards Poetry Journal and the owner of Kelsay Books, a fast-growing poetry press. A six-time Pushcart Prize nominee and winner of The Lyric's Fluvanna Award, her own poetry has appeared in The Poetry Foundation, The Nervous Breakdown, The HyperTexts, and the anthology Fire in the Pasture. She is the author of several chapbooks and three full-length poetry collections, most recently Of Omens the Flitter (2018).