Karen Kevorkian is an American poet. Her third poetry collection is Quivira (3: A Taos Press, 2020). Her other poetry collections are Lizard Dream (What Books Press, 2009) and White Stucco Black Wing (Red Hen Press, 2004).

Born in San Antonio, Texas, where she was raised, Kevorkian attended the University of Texas in Austin and worked briefly as a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman. She also attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, earning an MFA, and returning later to teach creative writing in the English department.  She did graduate study at the University of Utah, and then worked as an editor of exhibition catalogues for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She now makes her home in Los Angeles with her husband, the historian Dell Upton. Currently she teaches creative writing at the University of California Los Angeles. In Los Angeles she is a founding member of the Glass Table Artists Collective and a member of the board of trustees for Beyond Baroque literary arts organization.

Her poems are published in the journals Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Witness, Terminus Magazine, Massachusetts Review, Levure littéraire, The Enchanting Verses Literary Review, Pool, Denver Quarterly, VOLT, Poetry International, Spillway, Quarterly West, Shenandoah, New World Writing, Agni Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Literary Review, Borderlands, the Rio Grande Review, River City Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Archipelago, The Drunken Boat, Poetry Flash, Third Coast, Hambone, and other places.

Anthologies publishing her poems include Pratik: The LA Issue, Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes & Shifts in Los Angeles (Tia Chucha Press), Casita Poems: Poets of the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation (Jambu Press), The Land of Wandering (publishers left, University of Virginia Press), Line Drives (Southern Illinois University Press), and American Sports Poems (Orchard Books).

Her fiction is published in Fiction International, Five Fingers Review, Furious Fictions, and Mississippi Review. Her book reviews are in Colorado Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry Northwest, Poetry International, and Virginia Quarterly Review. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Ucross Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation.