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Winner of the 2003 Main Street Rag Chapbook contest, Karla Huston is the author of six chapbooks of poems, most recently An Inventory of Lost Things, Centennial Press, 2009. (www.centennialpress.com) She has published poetry, reviews and interviews in many national journals including Blackbird, Cimarron Review, Eclectica Magazine 5 A.M., North American Review, One Trick Pony, Pearl, Poet Lore, Rattle, Smartish Pace and others. Her poem “Theory of Lipstick” was awarded a Pushcart Prize www.pushcartprize.com and will appear in The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (2012).

Karla received the University of Wisconsin Foundation Student Short Story award (twice) and the Douglas Flaherty, Sr. Memorial Poetry Award. She holds a Jade Ring in poetry (2000 and 2011) and fiction (1999) from Wisconsin Writers' Association. In 2005, she earned an honorable mention from the Council for Wisconsin Writers for their Lorine Neidecker poetry award.

In addition to writing residencies from the Ragdale Foundation in 1998 and 2002, Karla
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.


		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 is the author of six chapbooks of poems, most recently An Inventory of Lost Things, Centennial Press, 2009. (www.centennialpress.com) She has published poetry, reviews and interviews in many national journals including Blackbird, Cimarron Review, Eclectica Magazine 5 A.M., North American Review, One Trick Pony, Pearl, Poet Lore, Rattle, Smartish Pace and others. Her poem “Theory of Lipstick” was awarded a Pushcart Prize www.pushcartprize.com and will appear in The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (2012). Karla received the University of Wisconsin Foundation Student Short Story award (twice) and the Douglas Flaherty, Sr. Memorial Poetry Award. She holds a Jade Ring in poetry (2000 and 2011) and fiction (1999) from Wisconsin Writers' Association. In 2005, she earned an honorable mention from the Council for Wisconsin Writers for their Lorine Neidecker poetry award. In addition to writing residencies from the Ragdale Foundation in 1998 and 2002, Karla 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.