Karen Kevorkian is a poet based in Los Angeles, California. Her fourth poetry collection is Here in My Body it Feels Crowded (Walton Well Press, 2025). Her other poetry collections are Quivira (Three: A Taos Press, 2020), Lizard Dream (What Books Press, 2009), and White Stucco Black Wing (Red Hen Press, 2004).
A native of San Antonio, Texas, Kevorkian attended the University of Texas in Austin before moving to San Francisco. She later earned an MFA at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and did subsequent graduate work at the University of Utah. She has worked as an editor of exhibition catalogues for The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, taught at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and at University of California Los Angeles.
She’s been awarded fellowships from the Djerassi, Ucross, MacDowell, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. In Los Angeles, she is a founding member of the Glass Table Artists Collective.
Her poems are published in the journals New American Review, Four Way Review, Furious Pure, Laurel Review, Verse Daily, Taos Journal of Poetry, Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Witness, Terminus Magazine, Massachusetts Review, Levure littéraire, Pool, Denver Quarterly, VOLT, Poetry International, Spillway, Quarterly West, Shenandoah, New World Writing, Agni Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Literary Review, Borderlands, the Rio Grande Review, River City Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Archipelago, The Drunken Boat, Poetry Flash, Third Coast, Hambone, Pratik: The LA Issue, and Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes & Shifts in Los Angeles (Tia Chucha Press). Her fiction is published in Fiction International, Five Fingers Review, Furious Fictions, and Mississippi Review.