Karen Leona Anderson is the author of Receipt and a previous collection of poems, Punish Honey. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, as well as ecopoetics, ZYZZYVA, Volt, and others. Originally from Connecticut, she received her MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, an MA from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, and her PhD from Cornell University, with a dissertation on poetry and science. She is currently Associate Professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
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Books by Karen Leona Anderson
In this collection, apparently prosaic documents—recipes and receipts—are transformed into expressions of human identity. From cherry pie to the little black dress to an epidural, these poems show how material objects and expenditures constrain and shape our twenty-first-century lives.
