Karen Holmberg’s second book of poems, Axis Mundi,
won the John Ciardi Prize and will be published in the fall of 2012 by BkMk Press. Her poetry and nonfiction has appeared in such magazines as Southern Poetry Review, New England Review, Nimrod,
West Branch, Cave Wall,Black Warrior Review, Poetry East, Indiana Review, and Cimarron Review. She teaches poetry writing in the MFA program at Oregon State
University.