Karen Fiser earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Virginia, an M.F.A. from Mills College, and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. After a first career as a philosophy professor, she began writing poems during the onset of a struggle with illness and disability. Her poems have appeared in seven anthologies and many journals. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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There are so many delights in this book, interpenetrated by so many losses.... She keeps her eye unflinchingly on 'the rough loving arms of this world,' even as she is buffeted about by it. - Lynne McMahon, Judge; ""From the searing heart of pain and patience come the transporting poems of Karen Fiser. Trust them. Treasure them. These poems are resounding, important, and deeply humane."" - Naomi Shihab Nye, author, Fuel