Karen Skolfield’s book, Frost in the Low Areas (Zone 3 Press), won the 2014 PEN New England Award in poetry. She is the winner of the 2016 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in poetry from The Missouri Review and has received awards and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, New England Public Radio, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Split This Rock, and elsewhere. She teaches writing to engineers at the University of Massachusetts.