Instructor Bios
Karen vanMeenen
Karen vanMeenen is Director of Special Projects at Writers & Books where she coordinates the program “If All of Rochester Read the Same Book…,” and teaches poetry, memoir and other writing workshops for adults and teens. She also teaches courses in Writing, Literature, Cultural Studies and Contemporary Media Art at Rochester Institute of Technology and SUNY Brockport. Karen holds an MA in Transformative Language Arts and is a Certified Poetry Therapist. She serves on the board of the National Association for Poetry Therapy where she is Publications Chair. She is the Editor of Afterimage, the Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism and recently edited Giving Sorrow Words: Poems of Strength and Solace and an anthology of poems by Lyn Lifshin scheduled to be published later this year.
Upcoming Classes
Writing the Labyrinth
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