ABOUT
A longtime resident of Seattle, WA, Kary Wayson works as a poetry teacher and freelance editor, as well as an associate editor for Poetry Northwest.
Kary has won many awards for her work, including the 92nd Street Y’s "Discovery"/The Nation Prize, the Crazyhorse/Linda Hull Memorial Prize, the Charles B. Wheeler Prize for her first book, American Husband, and the Burnside Review Prize for her second book, The Slip.
She has received fellowships and grants from Artist Trust, the Allied Arts Foundation, the Washington State Arts Commission, and 4Culture. Her poems have appeared widely online and in journals and anthologies, including the Best American Poetry series and The Pushcart Prize anthology.