“Wherever you find recovery, you’ll find relapsing as well,” Mary Ardery plainly states in the…
Karen Sherk Chio
Karen Sherk Chio (she/her) earned an MFA in poetry from the University of New Orleans, where she was the winner of the 2025 Andrea Saunders Gereighty / Academy of American Poets Award, the 2025 Maxine and Joseph Cassin Prize for Poetry Thesis, and the 2023 Vassar Miller Poetry Award. She is Editor-in-Chief at Solstice Literary Magazine, a full-time public health worker, a parent, and a spouse. Her creative work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Florida Review, swamp pink, Salamander, CALYX Journal, and SmokeLong Quarterly, among others. She lives in Massachusetts.