About the Author

Among her honors, KAREN CHASE has been recipient of a Rockefeller Bellagio Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, and numerous grants, including several from The Witter Bynner Foundation For Poetry and The Rockefeller Foundation. She was poet-in-residence at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, a large psychiatric hospital, poetry teacher to severely disturbed patients and a guest lecturer at the Lally School of Management and Technology (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) as part of a course called Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, co-taught by Ivar Giaever, Nobel Laureate in physics. She is the founder and director of the Camel River Writing Center in Lenox, Massachusetts.