About Me

Karen Brennan is the author of 9 books, which include poetry, fiction and nonfiction. A recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship and an AWP Award, she is Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. Her stories, poems and essays have been widely published in journals and magazines and have appeared in anthologies from Norton, Graywolf, Penguin, Michigan, Georgia, among others, as well as Best Small Fictions 2017 and Women’s Xxperimental Fiction. Since 1991, she has served as core faculty for The Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Her most recent books are Television, a memoir (Four Way, 2022) and Rabbit in the Moon: The Mexico Stories (Schaffner Press, 2024)