Here on Earth

KAREN BRENNAN wrote puppet shows, plays, stories, and poems as a child. Now an author of fiction and plays as well as of poetry, she received an Academy of American Poets Prize at the University of Arizona in 1986, the Sonora Review Poetry Prize the same year, and a P.E.N. Syndicated Short Fiction Award in 1987. Brennan was born in New Rochelle, New York, and grew up in Larchmont. She earned a B.A. at Newton College of the Sacred Heart in Newton, Massachusetts (1963), and an M.F.A. at Goddard College (1979). She is now studying for her Ph.D. and teaches at the University of Arizona. She has four children and her home is in Tucson.