This Woman I Thought I’d Be by Karol Nielsen

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This Woman I Thought I’d Be

by Karol Nielsen

$14, paper

KAROL NIELSEN is the author of the memoirs, Walking A&P (Mascot Books, 2018) and Black Elephants (Bison Books, 2011), selected as a New and Noteworthy Book by Poets & Writers in 2011 and shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing in nonfiction in 2012. Excerpts were honored as Notable Essays in The Best American Essays in 2010 and 2005, guest edited by Christopher Hitchens and Susan Orlean.

Her poetry chapbook, This Woman I Thought I’d Be (Finishing Line Press, 2012), includes poems from her full collection, selected as a finalist for the Colorado Prize for Poetry in 2007. Her work has appeared in Ink Stained (Ink Stained Press, 2013), a Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism anthology, and The Moment (Harper Perennial, 2012), an anthology edited by Smith Magazine.

She has served as senior editor, nonfiction editor, and contributing editor of Epiphany, an independent literary magazine, originally affiliated with New York University. Work published in Epiphany has been honored by The Best American Essays, The Best American Short Stories, The Best of the Web, The National Book Award, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, and others.

A full-time journalist for 15 years, she contributed to Jane’s and Thomson Reuters’ magazines as a staff writer and editor, New York Newsday and the Stamford Advocate op-ed page as a freelance writer, the New York Times as a stringer, and others. Her memoir and poetry have appeared in Epiphany, Guernica, Lumina, North Dakota Quarterly, Old Red Kimono, Permafrost, Smith, and elsewhere.

She has an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in international relations and economics with a minor in French from the University of Pennsylvania, where she contributed to the Penn World Review. She is a freelance writer and editor who has taught creative writing workshops at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop, New York University, and New York Writers Workshop.