Karen Mulhallen is a poet, scholar, editor, arts journalist, teacher, and professor emeritus at Ryerson University. She has published 22 books and numerous articles on the arts and has spent her life working on magazines and journals while also lecturing, teaching literature, creative writing and fine art. She has edited more than 150 issues of Descant magazine and published and lectured widely in North America and Europe. Karen’s work has been published in Serbo-Croatian, Italian, Turkish, Bosnian, French and Spanish.