Karla Huston, Appleton, Wisconsin, writes poetry and poetry reviews. She is available for readings and
poetry workshops.

info@karlahuston.com

Winner of the 2003 Main Street Rag Chapbook Contest, Karla Huston newest collection, An Inventory of Lost Things, was published by Centennial Press in 2009.  In addition, she is the author of Flight Patterns (Main Street Rag Press, 2003), Virgins on the Rocks (Parallel Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, 2004) and Catch and Release (Marsh River Editions, 2005). 

Her poems, reviews and interviews have been published widely in many print journals like 5 A.M., One Trick Pony, Poet Lore, Rattle, Chiron Review, Arbor Vitae, Pearl, and North American Review as well as online.  Her writing has earned numerous awards such as the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Foundation Student Short Story Award (twice) and the Douglas Flaherty, Sr., Memorial Poetry Award. She holds a Jade Ring for poetry and fiction from Wisconsin Regional Writers' Association. She earned an honorable mention in the Council for Wisconsin Writers Lorine Niedecker contest as well as several honorable mentions in the Wisconsin People & Ideas/Wisconsin Book Festival Poetry Contest.

In addition to writing residencies from the Ragdale Foundation in 1998 and 2002, Huston 
attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Middlebury, Vermont, in 2006 and 2007.  
She also teaches poetry writing workshops and reviews poetry books.

Education: BS in education: English, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 1993. MA in  
English—creative writing emphasis, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2003.

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