KAREN CHASE lives in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, The New Republic and The Yale Review. Her collection of poems, Kazimierz Square, was short-listed by ForeWord Magazine for their 2000 Poetry Book of the Year Award. Her poems have been widely anthologized, including work in The Norton Introduction to Poetry and Billy Collins' Poetry 180. Her non-fiction book, Land of Stone was published in March, 2007.