Meet the Poet
Kara Knickerbocker
Kara Knickerbocker is a poet and writer from Saegertown, Pennsylvania. She earned her BA in English from Westminster College in 2012. Her poetry and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in The Blue Route, Scrawl, Construction, Longridge Review, Pittsburgh City Paper, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Thought Catalog, One Sentence Poems, Uppagus, Avatar Review, and the anthology Voices from the Attic, Vol. XXII, among others. Her poetry collection won first place in its category at the 2016 Sigma Tau Delta International English convention. Next to Everything that is Breakable is her debut chapbook. Knickerbocker lives in Pittsburgh, where she works at Carnegie Mellon University and writes with the Madwomen in the Attic at Carlow University. Read.