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Karen Craigo

Karen Craigo is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Passing Through Humansville and No More Milk, both published by Sundress Publications, and of three chapbooks, and she served as the fifth Poet Laureate of Missouri (2019-21). She also writes fiction and essays. Professionally, she is a reporter in Springfield, Missouri, for Springfield Business Journal, and she is Nonfiction Editor of Mid-American Review and poetry series editor for Moon City Press. She is married to the fiction writer Michael Czyzniejewski, and they have two sons, Copernicus and Keats.

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Interviewer in Smokelong Quarterly

Interview: Smoke Signals with Caroline Kalfas

Interview: Smoke Signals with
Joshua Geller Schwartz

Interview: Smoke Signals with Christina Tudor

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Notes as Guest Reader/Editor in Smokelong Quarterly

Notes: Parasomnia

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