Karen McCarthy

Karen McCarthy’s short poetry collection The Worshipful Company of Pomegranate Slicers (Spread the Word) was selected as a New Statesman Book of the Year in 2006. Anthologies that feature her work include New Writing 15 (British Council/Granta, 2007) and I am twenty people! (Enitharmon, 2007). She is the editor of the critically acclaimed poetry anthology Bittersweet (The Women’s Press, 1998) and Kin: New Fiction by Black and Asian Women (Serpent’s Tail, 2004). She is a contributing editor at the international literary journal Wasafiri.