Karen Kelsay lives in Orange County, California, and is the founder and editor of the poetry magazine Victorian Violet Press. She has authored five chapbooks, Lavender Song (Fortunate Childe Publications 2011), In Spite of Her (Flutter Press 2010), Song of the Bluebell Fairy (Pudding House Publications 2010), A Fist of Roots (Pudding  House Publications 2009), Somewhere near Evesham ( The New Formalist 2009) and a full length collection, Dove on a Church Bench (Punkin House 2011). She has been published in numerous anthologies, including Fire in the Pasture (Peculiar Pages 2011) a collection of 21^st century Mormon poets. She has received an award from The Lyric, and is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee. In Feb 2011 she was the featured poet in The New Formalist. Her work has appeared in The Flea, The Raintown Review, The Lyric, 14 by 14 Magazine, Trinacria, The Foundling Review, Grey Sparrow, and many others. You can find more of her poetry at The HyperTexts.