Karyna McGlynn (born 1977 in Austin, Texas) is an American poet. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose"
Karyna first became popular as a performance poet in the poetry slam scene in the late 1990s, regularly performing at the Electric Lounge and wowing crowds at South by Southwest. Performance poetry is Poetry that is specifically composed for or during performance before an audience A poetry slam is a competition at which poets read or recite original work (or more rarely that of others South by Southwest ( SXSW) is a set of interactive, Film, and Music festivals and conferences that take place She was a member of the 1998 and 1999 National Poetry Slam teams from Austin. The National Poetry Slam (NPS is a performance poetry competition where teams from across the United States Canada and France participate in a large-scale Poetry slam Two of her signature pieces from that time ("Fat Artists" and "Thong Underwear Poem") are included on the compilation CD Tina's Fine-Ass Lingerie.
In 2000, Karyna moved to Seattle to study musical theatre at Cornish College of the Arts. Musical theatre is a form of Theatre combining Music, Songs spoken Dialogue and Dance. Cornish College of the Arts is a fully accredited institution in the Denny Triangle and Capitol Hill neighborhoods of Seattle Washington, USA In 2002, she coached the Seattle slam team to a spot on the NPS finals stage. She was a Seattle team member in 2003.
Winner of the 2004 Bart Baxter Award for Poetry in Performance and the 2004 Superbowl of Poetry, Karyna is a three-time 2005 Pushcart Prize nominee. The Pushcart Prize is a prestigious American Literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry short fiction essays or literary whatnot" published Her spoken-word is featured in Rhapsodists, a documentary film about women performance poets.
Karyna graduated from the creative writing program at Seattle University, where she was nominated for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, and she recently completed her MFA at the University of Michigan where she received the Cornwell Fellowship in Poetry, the Moveen Residency in Ireland, and the Hopwood Award in Poetry. Seattle University is a Nonprofit Jesuit Catholic University in the United States. In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts ( MFA) is a Graduate degree typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the Bachelor's degree The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research The Hopwood Awards are a major scholarship program at the University of Michigan, founded by Avery Hopwood. She is currently a Zell Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Michigan.
Her work has appeared in many journals, both in print and online, including Gulf Coast, FENCE, Crab Orchard Review, LIT, Another Chicago Magazine, Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, Willow Springs and Verse.
Her most recent chapbook, Scorpionica is forthcoming from New Michigan Press. She has also released a CD of her spoken-word with music entitled Unsuitable. Spoken word is a form of literary Art or artistic performance in which Lyrics, Poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung
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