Karen Chase is the author of two collections of poems, Kazimierz Square and BEAR (CavanKerry Press, 2000 and 2008), as well as Jamali Kamali, a book-length homoerotic poem that takes place in Mughal India. Her award-winning book, Land of Stone, tells the story of her work with a silent young man in a psychiatric hospital where she was the hospital poet. Her childhood bout with polio sparked her memoir Polio Boulevard, as well as FDR on His Houseboat: The Larooco Log, 1924–1926. History Is Embarrassing, a collection of her essays, was released by CavanKerry Press in 2024. She and her husband live in western Massachusetts. Visit her online at www.karenchase.com.