I’m from New Bedford, Massachusetts, the seaport city steeped in whale oil and history that opens Melville’s Moby Dick. I studied writing at Bard College and went on to earn a BA in History at the University of Massachusetts, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Hampshire.
I spent five years living and teaching in Eastern Europe, including Lithuania and Russia, and besides my own poetry and essays I have published translations and co-translations from the Russian and the French.
Besides a fascination with language and literature, history and travel, I have a special interest in food and its intersection with culture and personal narrative. For many years I cooked professionally. Some examples of my food writing can be found here.
My family and I live in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts.
Karina Borowicz 