Karen Brennan holds a PhD from University of Arizona and an MFA from Goddard. She is a professor in the English department at University of Utah. She has published Wild Desire (University of Massachusetts Press,1990), a short fiction collection, which won the AWP Award in Fiction; Here on Earth (Wesleyan University Press, 1988), a poetry collection; and Being With Rachel: a Story of Memory and Survival (W.W. Norton, 2002), a memoir that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has had multiple Pushcart nominations and received a Pushcart Special Mention for ""Cleaning House."" She has also received the Sonora Review Fiction First Prize, Florence Hemley Schnelder Prize in Women's Studies, PEN Syndicated Short Fiction Prize, and Senora Review Poetry First Prize.
