Karen Zealand

Karen Zealand’s collection, X-Testaments, was the 2003 winner of the Elixir Press Chapbook Competition. She is a 2007 recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Poetry. Her manuscript, Friendly Fire, was a 2003 runner-up for the Maryland Artscape Emerging Voices Award. Her poems are widely published in journals and anthologized in The Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry and Outerbridge’s retrospective anthology, among others. The Sniper and the Spotter was chosen as the winner of the Third Annual Camber Press Poetry Chapbook Award by Stephen Dobyns.