Karyna McGlynn
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Karyna McGlynn (born 1977 in Austin, Texas) is an American poet. She has released several chapbooks, including Juicy, Lindy Alone, Mint Jelly, A Walk in the Park, Bone Structure, Tango the Green Tiger, The July Poems, Wintering, and most recently, The Strawberry Coats. She has also released a CD of her spoken-word with music entitled Unsuitable.
Karyna first became popular as a performance poet in the poetry slam scene in the late 1990s, regularly performing at the famous Electric Lounge and wowing crowds at South-by-Southwest. She was a member of the 1998 and 1999 National Poetry Slam teams from Austin. Two of her signature pieces from that time ("Fat Artists" and "Thong Underwear Poem") are included on the compilation CD Tina's Fine-Ass Lingerie.
In 2000, Karyna moved to Seattle to study musical theatre at Cornish College of the Arts. In 2002, she coached the Seattle slam team to a spot on the NPS finals stage. She was a Seattle team member in 2003.
Winner of the 2004 Bart Baxter Award for Poetry in Performance and the 2004 Superbowl of Poetry, Karyna is a three-time 2005 Pushcart Prize nominee. Her spoken-word is featured in Rhapsodists, a documentary film about women performance poets.
She is a recent graduate of the creative writing program at Seattle University, where she was nominated for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. She is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Michigan where she's been awarded the Cornwell Fellowship in Poetry, the Moveen Residency in Ireland, and the prestigious Hopwood Award in Poetry.
Her work has appeared in many journals, both in print and online, including Hotel Amerika, Cimarron Review, Gulf Coast, Wisconsin Review, Good Foot Magazine, Spinning Jenny, Typo, Subtropics and Verse.
