Karen Kelsay is the founder and editor of The Orchards Poetry Journal, and the former editor of the poetry magazine Victorian Violet Press. She has authored several books and chapbooks: Lavender Song (Fortunate Childe Publications 2011), In Spite of Her (Flutter Press 2010), Song of the Bluebell Fairy (Pudding House Publications 2010),  A Fist of Roots (Pudding House Publications 2009), Somewhere Near Evesham ( The New Formalist 2009), and two full length collections, Dove on a Church Bench (Punkin House 2011), and Amytis Leaves Her Garden (White Violet Press 2012). She has been published in numerous anthologies, including Fire in the Pasture (Peculiar Pages 2011) a collection of 21st-century Mormon poets.  In 2012 she received the Fluvanna award from The Lyric and is a six-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Karen has been the featured poet in The New Formalist, The Nervous Breakdown, Russell Bittner's Poet's Corner, and A Motley Vision.  Her work has appeared in The Flea, The Raintown Review, The Lyric, 14 by 14 Magazine, Trinacria, Tipton Poetry Journal, Medullah Review, Mezzo Cammin, String Poet, Angle: Journal of Poetry, The Foundling Review, Grey Sparrow, and many others. You can read more of her poetry at The HyperTexts. Karen is also listed on the Poetry Foundation's website.