biopage

Karen Kelsay

I am a native Californian, who grew up

along and

on the

Pacific,

and that should

explain my love for

writing poetry

about the

sea.

At the same time, I

have written

narrative,

romantic, and fairy-

theme

poems

that were created with

other backgrounds

and

foreign lands in mind.

I attended college in Alaska, where I studied

art

and history,

and then devoted much time

to

traveling, for leisure, and

the

sake of

gathering

impressions, for writing poetry.

Several of

my

rhymed and free-verse verses

have been

accepted by

the

following

magazines:

The Christian Science Monitor,

Love’s

Chance,

The Oak,

The

Shepherd, Designing

On Line

Magazine, Pregnant

Moon,The

Storyteller, Avocet,

Lucid

Rhythms, Oasis

Magazine and

Munyori

Poetry Journal.

My husband and I live in Torrance, just a

short

distance

from

the

beach, where I still

look for

writing subjects and

inspirations. I

would be hard-

pressed to single out my

favorite

poets, and by

no

means has my

poetry been

influenced by

anyone

in

particular, but I lean toward the

traditional

forms