Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary
Karla Kelsey was born and raised in Southern California.  With degrees from UCLA (BA English and Philosophy), the  Iowa  Writer's Workshop (MFA Poetry), and the University of  Denver (PhD), she is now on the creative writing faculty at  Susquehanna  University in Pennsylvania. Karla is the author of Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary, which  was selected by Carolyn Forche for the 2005 Sawtooth  Poetry Prize.  It was published in 2006 by Ahsahta Press. Little Dividing  Doors in the Mind, a chapbook, was published by Noemi  Press in  2005. Her recently completed manuscript, Iteration Nets, is  forthcoming from Ahsahta Press. Work from this book can  be found  in journals such as Denver Quarterly, the New Review of  Literature, and Bird Dog. In addition, poems from this  manuscript are  included in the anthology Joyful Noise: An Anthology of  American Spiritual Poetry. New poems can be read on-line  in Gutcult  and Harp & Altar. Two new chapbook projects are recently  out from Cannibal's Narwhal press and Pilot Press. Along with poetic projects, Karla is involved in essay writing,  multi-media performance, and bookmaking. Her essays and  reviews have appeared in such journals as Five Fingers  Review, Slope, Denver Quarterly, and the Poetry Project  Newsletter.  She helps to edit Reconfigurations, an online journal of  poetry and poetics. Imprint Press, a bookarts collaboration  publishes limited edition artists books. The first project is  Robert Strong's Brethren: Order of the Seasons. She is also  one  of five co-founders and editors of Ponzipo Press, a poetry  press collaboration.