Lizard Dream, Karen Kevorkian's new poems, reflects her deep affinity for the austere and revelatory southwestern and western landscapes that she experienced growing up in South Texas and traveling across country before eventually settling in California. She now teaches poetry and fiction workshops at UCLA, having moved recently from Charlottesville, where she taught writing workshops at the University of Virginia for six years.

Her previous book of poems is White Stucco Black Wing (2004). She has published poetry and fiction in journals including the Antioch, Agni, Massachusetts, Virginia Quarterly, Hayden's Ferry, Rio Grande, River City, Mississippi, Los Angeles, and Five Fingers reviews.

Other journals include Witness, VOLT, Third Coast, Shenandoah, Fiction International, and the online journals The Drunken Boat and Archipelago.