Karen G. Berry lives and works in Portland, Oregon as a professional copywriter. She is interested in micro-societies, the strange and secret lives of children, and the heroic nature of everyday living. Karen's poetry has been published by Rust & Moth, Parks & Points, The Gilded Weathervane, Hotpot, Goblin Fruit, Fireweed, Seek It, Prairie Poetry, Subprimal, Panorama, Ekphrastic Review, and many other journals and print anthologies. You can learn more about Karen’s novels at her blog, I am Not a Pie, where she overshares about her nomadic Midwestern upbringing and assorted husbands.