Karyna McGlynn

Karyna McGlynn is a writer, professor, and collagist. She is the author of three poetry collections from Sarabande Books: 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse (2022), Hothouse (2017), and I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl (2009). She is also the author of the chapbooks The 9-Day Queen Gets Lost on Her Way to the Execution (Willow Springs Books, 2016), Alabama Steve (Sundress, 2014), and Scorpionica (New Michigan Press, 2007). 

Originally from Austin, Texas, McGlynn earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan and a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston. She served as the organizer of the Houston Indie Book Fest and as managing editor of Gulf Coast. Her honors include a New York Times Editor’s Choice, the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize for Poetry, the Florida Review Award in Fiction, and a Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship.She is the director of creative writing at the Interlochen Center for the Arts.