Karen Sagstetter

Karen Sagstetter has published poetry and fiction in numerous literary journals, two chapbooks of poetry, two nonfiction books, and The Thing with Willie, a collection of linked stories. Her family comes from Louisiana and from Texas, where she grew up. She studied in Japan as a Fulbright journalist and worked as senior editor for many years at the Smithsonian’s museum of Asian art, the Freer and Sackler Galleries, and at the National Gallery of Art.