Karen Pierce Gonzalez

An award-winning writer, Karen Pierce Gonzalez's work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, radio and podcast shows. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), True North and Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and forthcoming Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press) and Moon Kissed, Earth Wrought, Vision Drunk (with a North American publisher). 

  

With degrees in creative writing, anthropological linguistics, and folklore, she is also a former journalist and folklore columnist who now hosts a quarterly ‘Get Ekphrastic with Folk Art’ blogzine on FolkHeart Press. 

 

An intuitive artist, her work is primarily upon assemblage (3D) based upon elements found in nature. To date, 50+ of her art images, including six cover images, have been published in a range of literary journals/magazines