Karen Fish is an associate professor and past chair in the Writing Department at Loyola University Maryland. She is the author of three poetry collections: The Cedar Canoe, What Is Beyond Us, and No Chronology. Fish has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and was a visiting lecturer at Princeton University. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines including The New Yorker, Paris Review, Yale Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry, The New Republic, and Slate.