Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, Karen J. Weyant is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Stealing Dust (Finishing Line Press) and Wearing Heels in the Rust Belt (Main Street Rag). Her poems and essays have appeared in Chautauqua, Copper Nickel, Crab Creek Review, Crab Orchard Review, cream city review, Fourth River, Lake Effect, Rattle, River Styx and Whiskey Island. Her poems have also appeared in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry Series and the Sundress Publications Best of the Net annual anthology. She lives in Warren, Pennsylvania and is an Associate Professor of English at Jamestown Community College in Jamestown, New York.
