Karen Elizabeth Sharpe is from Rutland, Massachusetts, where she lives with her partner and two pandemic rescue dogs. Karen is the author of Prayer Can Be Anything, (Finishing Line Press) and This Late Afternoon (Dunn & Co.). A member of the National Baseball Poetry Festival executive committee and poetry editor of The Worcester Review, her poems have appeared widely, including in SWWIM, Whale Road Review, The MacGuffin, The Comstock Review, Split Rock Review, and On the Seawall among others.