Karen Kevorkian lives in Los Angeles where she teaches poetry and fiction writing workshops at UCLA.Her new poetry collection is LIZARD DREAM, published by What Books Press, the imprint of the Glass Table Collective, a group of predominantly Los Angeles-based artists and writers.Her first poetry collection, White Stucco Black Wing, was published by Red Hen Press of Los Angeles in 2004. Journals publishing Kevorkian's poetry and fiction include Antioch Review, Agni, Massachusetts Review, Quarterly West, Virginia Quarterly Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Mississippi Review, Witness, VOLT, Shenandoah, and Fiction International.Kevorkian has lived in LA since 2008. Before then she taught in the University of Virginia creative writing programfor six years after moving there from San Francisco.