Born in Virginia and raised in Alabama, Karie now lives on and writes from her farm in Drain, Oregon. Karie is both a high school dropout and a master of fine arts. She holds a BA in creative writing from the University of South Alabama and an MFA in creative nonfiction from Oregon State University. She is a freelance writer, a contributing writer for the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a co-founder of Random Sample Review, and a memoir reader for Split Lip Magazine. In the summer, she teaches wilderness survival skills to children across Oregon and Washington and tends to her farm. During the school year, she is a substitute special education teaching assistant. Much of Karie’s writing is influenced by the death of her husband after he was wounded at war then overdosed on prescribed opioids. She is working on a memoir about this experience. She also writes about women’s issues, travel, farm life, and social justice. She is represented by Chris Clemans at Janklow & Nesbit.
Karie’s work can be found in The Washington Post, Vox, The Rumpus, Narratively, Huffpost, Entropy, Cosmonauts Avenue, Entropy, Human Parts, and elsewhere.
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