Karen Locascio is an avid reader and sometimes poet whose work has appeared in Cider Press Review, Paper Nautilus, and Spry Literary Journal, among others. Her poetry collection, May All My Wounds Be Mortal (Hanging Loose Press, 2017), won the Ron Schreiber Memorial Award. Originally from New Jersey, she has an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Karen works as an assistant program manager for a nonprofit in Boston and once appeared on the game show Jeopardy!



From loose pages to issue 119 of our magazine, an anthology of over 100 HLP poets, over a decade of the Loose Award for translated works, the Founders prize for first book in its third year, and a bunch of great books in the works, we couldn’t have come this far without you.