Karen Rigby was born in the Republic of Panama in 1979. She’s the author of Chinoiserie (Ahsahta Press, 2012), which won the 2011 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. Her work has been honored by a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, and a Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council artist opportunity grant. Her poetry appears online and in print journals such as FIELD, The London Magazine, Bennington Review, Banshee, Washington Square, and jubilat. She’s read in Tucson, Houston, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Minneapolis and other cities. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University (BA) and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (MFA), she currently lives in Arizona.