Kai-Lilly Karpman

Kai-Lilly Karpman has studied at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and holds an MFA from Columbia University. She has been previously published in Plume, Image Magazine, Passengers, and elsewhere. Her collection, “Life Cycle of Cruelty,” was named a finalist for the 2024 Trio House Press Louise Bogan Award. Her lyrics have appeared in Marvel Studio’s “Mz. Marvels” and“The Marvels” soundtrack. Kai-Lilly values the marriage between literature's intuitive, unnameable power and the formal techniques that support its emergence. Her subject matter is almost always the effects of patriarchy.