Karen Sagstetter has published poetry and fiction in forty literary journals, including Shenandoah, Poet Lore, and Tidal Basin Review as well as two chapbooks of poetry, and two nonfiction books, and she has won first prizes in contests sponsored by Glimmer Train Press and Antietam Review. She studied in Japan as a Fulbright journalist and has worked in museum publishing for many years at the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries and at the National Gallery of Art.