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Dec. 2013USAKAREN PETERSEN has traveled the planet extensively, publishing both nationally and internationally in a variety of publications. Most recently, her poems, short stories, and flash appeared in the Wallace Stevens Journal, the Cimarron Review and Peacock Journal (USA), The Bosphorus Review (Istanbul), Idiom 23 (Australia), and A New Ulster (Northern Ireland). New work also appeared in The Stockholm Review of Literature, The Curlew (UK), Aurora:EKU, and Trickster (USA). Her Haiku, Haibun and Flash have appeared in "A Poet's Picnic," "Wilderness: Land Untrammeled," KYSO, and Mercurial Stories. She has been nominated for ten Pushcart Prizes, the Best of the Net, the UK's Forward Prize, the international Bridport Prize, and AU's Peter Porter Prize. Her poems have been translated into Persian and Spanish and she has read at the KGB Bar in NYC and the Yeats Festival in Santa Fe. She was responsible for "The Badlands are Everywhere" 2017 event honoring Malpais Review and editor Gary Brower in Santa Fe, and for co-organizing and participating in the "All-Star Poetry Reading" at the Center for Progress and Justice in Santa Fe in 2018. In 2019, she was one of the judges and participants in the Santa Fe Telepoem Booth, a national poetry installation project. In 2020 she was asked to be one of the state judges in the national Poetry Out Loud competition created by the NEA and Poetry Foundation. Her work has also appeared in various anthologies and literary magazines: Weaving the Terrain: 100 Word Southwestern Poems (Dos Gatos Press), Missing Persons (Beatlick Press), Earth Hymn: KYSO Flash Anthology, End of Summer poems (The Alexandria Quarterly Press), Di-verse-city: the Anthology of the Austin International Poetry Festival, The Ekphrastic Review, Manzano Mountain Review, Malpais Review, Pilgrimage magazine, The Asses of Parnassus, The Five-Two: Poems on Crime, Antiphon (UK), Orbis (UK), The Blue Nib (Ireland), and The Wild Word (Berlin). https://karenpetersenwriter.com
MediaForeign Correspondent
Jan. 1983 - Dec. 2013WorldlwideEXPERIENCE: NEWS MEDIA (1986-2006)
Foreign Correspondent
-Assignments for: The New York Times, Newsweek, Harper's, The Nation, People, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Forward, The Associated Press, German GEO, Wildlife Conservation, The Universal Press Syndicate, Hortus, The London Daily Telegraph, The Times of London, Rolling Stone, U.S. News & World Report, Travel & Leisure, Scholastic, Unicef, UNDP, USIA and the World Bank
-Developed a start-up business plan for a national magazine combining travel, satire and photography with an initial capitalization of $5 million dollars INTERNATIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:
Asia (Japan, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia: Sumatra, Irian Jaya, Java, Bali), Africa and the Middle East (Israel, Egypt, Sudan, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius), Europe (Norway, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, the United Kingdom), the Americas (Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Uruguay, Argentina) COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS, NY, NY 1997-1998
Acting Program Director for Africa
Responsible for all of CPJ's research and advocacy projects in 45 countries classified as sub-Saharan Africa.
Wrote the Africa section of CPJ's annual Attacks on the Press book, a regional overview and summary of the state of the media, on a country by country basis, utilized by the State Department and other organizations.
Handled breaking emergencies such as monitoring conditions for the African media during coups and wartime (Liberia, Sierra Leone and Zaire) UNAM Media Project Director 1996-1997
While a Vassar research fellow, I created a two year media training project, with regional tie-ins, for the University of Namibia in Southern Africa. THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, Philadelphia, PA 1991 General Assignment Reporter
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