She is a poetry editor at the museum of americana, holds an MFA from the Stonecoast Program at University of Southern Maine, and has served as a teaching artist at The Rooster Moans poetry cooperative. Recipient of the 2012 Pocataligo Poetry Prize and a multiple Pushcart nominee, Karrie has also received critical acclaim for LONG GONE: A Poetry Sideshow, a one-woman show based on her collection of circus poems. She really wishes she could tame tigers and swallow swords.