English Dept. College of Arts and Sciences, Washburn University

K.L. Barron
karen.barron@washburn.edu

Lecturer K. L. Barron earned an M.F.A. from The Writing Seminars at Bennington College in 2005 with a concentration in literature and fiction, culminating in a collection of short fiction entitled Controlled Burn and a lecture entitled “Acoustical Notes on the Mind Moving through Language.” Her undergraduate work was completed in 1979 from Kansas State University where she earned a B.A. in English. Barron has published work in literary journals including The Bennington Review, New Letters, The Midwest Quarterly, Kansas Voices Anthology, Touchstone, and others. She was featured as one of the Great Plains poets in the Midwest Quarterly in 1999 and was a winner in the Kansas Voices contest in 2000. Barron currently serves as a board member of the Bob Woodley Memorial Press, a nonprofit publisher devoted to work by Kansas authors, and the non-profit Project Rescue of Amazon Youth. She is a member of the Associated Writing Programs, the association of writers and writing programs, P.E.N., an association of writers working to advance literature, defend free expression, and foster international literary fellowship, and the Africa Faith and Justice Network, a non-profit organization that supplies aid to the Saharan region where Barron served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1980s.