IU School of Liberal Arts

Karen Kovacik

Campus Address: CA 503U
Phone: (317)274-9831
Email: kkovacik@iupui.edu
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Appointments

Professor of English
Director of Creative Writing
Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies

Education

B.A. Indiana University 1981
Postbaccalaureate Certificate School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1988
M.A. Cleveland State University 1990
Ph.D Ohio State University 1997

Academic Interests

contemporary American poetry, history of the lyric, working-class poetry, literary translation, and creative writing

Awards

Indiana Poet Laureate, 2012-13
NEA fellowship in literary translation, 2011;
Winner, Moving Forward Contest for the poem "Invisible Movements";
2011 and 2007 Trustees' Teaching Award;
2007 Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum;
2006 Best Book of Indiana Award for Metropolis Burning; 2004-05 Fulbright Research Grant to Warsaw, Poland; 2003 Trustees' Teaching Award; 2003 Creative Renewal Fellowship, Arts Council of Indianapolis; 2002 Glimmer Train Very Short Story Award for "Madrigals for a Bauhaus Baby"; 2002 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award, sponsored by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, for "Requiem for the Buddhas of Bamiyan"; 2001 Chelsea Award for Short Fiction for "Going to Lvov"; 1998 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize for Beyond the Velvet Curtain.

Publications

Return of the Prodigal (Poetry Atlanta Press 1991), Nixon and I(Kent State University Press 1998), Beyond the Velvet Curtain (Kent State University Press 1999), and Metropolis Burning (Cleveland State, 2005); articles in Women's Studies Quarterly and NWSA Journal; numerous poems and stories in Glimmer Train, Chelsea, Massachusetts Review, Salmagundi; translations of Polish poetry in APR, Boston Review, Crazyhorse, Mid-American Review, Southern Review, West Branch.

Service

Chair, IUPUI Arts and Humanities Initiative Committee, 2009-present; Director of Creative Writing, 1999-present; Etheridge Knight Festival for the Arts board of directors, 2005-present

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