Karen Kovacik
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Karen Kovacik is the author of the poetry collections Beyond the Velvet Curtain and Metropolis Burning, the editor of Scattering the Dark: An Anthology of Polish Women Poets, and translator of Agnieszka Kuciak’s Distant Lands: An Anthology of Poets Who Don’t Exist. Her honors include a Fulbright Research Grant, a Fellowship in Literary Translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum. She served as Indiana’s Poet Laureate (2012-2013). Kovacik was born in East Chicago, Indiana, grew up in Highland Indiana, and currently lives in Indianapolis, Indiana where she is a professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
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