Karen Brennan is an American author who has written seven books in various genres–including poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her most recent collection of stories, Monsters, was published by Four Way Books in 2016. Her work has appeared in anthologies from Norton, Penguin, Graywolf, and Spuytin Duyvil among others. A National Endowment of the Arts recipient, she is Professor Emerita at the University of Utah and teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.