Karen Skolfield’s book Frost in the Low Areas won the 2014 PEN New England Award in poetry and the First Book Award from Zone 3 Press. She received the 2015 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and the 2015 Arts & Humanities Award from New England Public Radio. New poems appear in Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, Pleiades, and others. Skolfield is an Army veteran and teaches writing to engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she earned her master’s in fine arts.