Karen Paul Holmes

won the Lascaux Review 2023 Poetry Prize and a poem was given Special Mention in the Pushcart Prizer Anthology, 2024. Her two books of poetry are No Such Thing As Distance (Terrapin Books, 2018) and Untying the Knot (Aldrich Press, 2014). Publications include Plume Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, Pedestal, Diode, and Poet Lore. To support fellow writers, Karen started and hosts a critique group in Atlanta. She also hosted Writers’ Night Out in the Blue Ridge Mountains for 12 years She is also a roving writing workshop teacher. 

In her former life, Karen was VP-Communications at a global financial services corporation, where she and her creative team won international awards for advertisements, brochures, videos, and other marketing projects. Now, as owner of Simply Communicated, Inc, Karen works as a freelance business writer and communication consultant. She has helped clients create highly effective communications, and her ghost-written articles have appeared in many industry publications under executive bylines. 

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Subjects include: writing poetry, running a critique group, suggested reads,

divorce advice, writing through your grief, and more.