Karen Lee Boren
Secret Waltz
Karen Lee Boren is the author of Mother Tongue (New Rivers Press) and Girls in Peril (Tin House Books, a Barnes and Noble Discover selection). She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is the winner of the 2018 Wundor Editions Fiction Prize. Her writing appears in WomenArts Journal, The Florida Review, BookForum, and Fourth Genre, among other places, as well as the Lonely Planet's anthology Rites of Passage: Backpacking 'Round Europe, and The Best of Lonely Planet’s Travel Writing. A native of Milwaukee, she now lives with her husband, Paul, in Providence, RI, and teaches writing at Rhode Island College.