Karen Kotrba

Karen Kotrba was raised in Columbiana County, Ohio and taught composition at Baldwin-Wallace University, Youngstown State University, and Kent State University in East Liverpool. A graduate of the Northeast Ohio MFA program, she is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council grant for individual excellence in fiction writing. Her poetic sequence about the midwives of the Frontier Nursing Service, She Who is Like a Mare, was also published by Bottom Dog Press.

Karen Kotrba was raised in Columbiana County, Ohio and taught composition at Baldwin-Wallace University, Youngstown State University, and Kent State University in East Liverpool. A graduate of the Northeast Ohio MFA program, she is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council grant for individual excellence in fiction writing. Her poetic sequence about the midwives of the Frontier Nursing Service, She Who is Like a Mare, was also published by Bottom Dog Press. See less