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WORK TITLE: Providence
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WEBSITE: https://kvdbooks.com/
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STATE: CO
COUNTRY: United States
NATIONALITY: American
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PERSONAL
Female.
EDUCATION:Georgia Southern University, M.A.; Vermont College, M.F.A.
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CAREER
Writer. Has taught writing at Georgia Southern Unviersity, Statesboro; Louisiana State University, Shreveport; and Front Range Community College, Westminster, CO.
MEMBER:Academy of American Poets, Lighthouse Writers’ Workshop, Colorado Independent Publishers Association, Columbine Poets of Colorado.
WRITINGS
Author, with Helen Swarts, of play The Party, produced in Portland, ME, 1998. Contributor of poems and short stories to periodicals, including Atlantic Monthly, Boston Literary Review, Cafe Review, Colorado Independent, Red Poppy Review, and Yankee Magazine. Contributor of articles to newspapers, including Shreveport Journal.
SIDELIGHTS
Karen Douglass is an author who works in a variety of forms. “I have been writing all my adult life, mostly poetry, some fiction and creative nonfiction, as well,” she writes on her website. Her poems have been published in dozens of periodicals, and she has released several poetry collections. She has also taught writing at colleges around the United States. In 2015 she published her debut novel, the dystopian tale Accidental Child, and its sequel, Providence, came out the following year. Providence is a coming-of-age story set in the Rhode Island city of that name in the near future, when climate change has resulted in rising ocean levels, severe storms, and disastrous floods. Its protagonist, Cobalt, is a young boy who time-travels to the year 2040 in Providence. He was venturing through time with his father, but the father has ended up in 2032. Cobalt finds an adoptive family and befriends other displaced children. Eventually he finds his biological father again, and they join forces in an effort to save Providence from a threatening flood. A Publishers Weekly reviewer thought the novel was marred by “too many unsatisfying subplots,” but allowed: “Douglass writes well about the conflicts and pressures of found families.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Publishers Weekly, October 23, 2017, review of Providence, p. 69.
ONLINE
Colorado Poets Center Website, https://coloradopoetscenter.org/ (March 21, 2018), brief biography.
Karen Douglass Website, https://kvdbooks.com (March 21, 2018).
Serving House Journal Website, http://www.servinghousejournal.com/ (March 21, 2018), brief biography.
I now live in Colorado after many years in Maine and other parts of the country. I write poetry, fiction, a blog (www.kvdbooks.com) and am very active in the writing community in the North Metro Denver area. My education includes an MA in Liteature and an MFA in Creative Writing.
Biography
Her books include Red Goddess Poems; Bones in the Chimney (fiction); Green Rider, Thinking Horse (non-fiction); Sostenuto, (poems) and The Great Hunger (poems), which is available from Plain View Press (2009). Individual poems have appeared in a wide variety of publications. A new chapbook, Two-Gun Lil, is scheduled for independent publication in 2011. Karen holds an MA in English Lit from Georgia Southern and an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College. Please, visit her at www.kvdbooks.com.
Karen Douglass
is a Colorado writer. She has published several short fiction pieces; many poems; a collection of short fiction, Bones in the Chimney; and five books of poetry. The most recent is Two-Gun Lil. She has an MA in English Lit and an MFA in Creative Writing (Vermont College).
Ms. Douglass is a member of Lighthouse Writers’ Workshop and Colorado Independent Publishers Association. You can visit her blog and publication list at: www.kvdbooks.com
Quoted in Sidelights: I have been writing all my adult life, mostly poetry, some fiction and creative non-fiction, as well.
Karen’s background
Hi, my name is Karen Douglass. Thanks for visiting. I moved to Colorado after many years in Maine, and many before that all over the country. My big deals are writing, family, horses, dogs, genealogy, reading, (the order is random and changes day to day) and whatever catches my attention at the moment. And at the moment I am thrilled that my debut novel, Accidental Child, is now in print and in an ebook version. If you go to the “Bookshelf” page here, you’ll see all my books and where to buy them. Reviews are most welcome.
I have been writing all my adult life, mostly poetry, some fiction and creative non-fiction, as well. I taught writing at Georgia Southern, LSU-Shreveport, and Front Range Community College. I am currently a member of The Academy of American Poets, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Colorado Independent Publishers Association, and Columbine Poets of Colorado. I contribute to the News Poetry section of The Colorado Independent newspaper. You can check my publication list on a separate page here at the website. I love comments and interaction on the blog, and by email: kvdbooks@facebook.com.
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Quoted in Sidelights: Douglass writes well about the
conflicts and pressures of found families,
too many unsatisfying
subplots.
Print Marked Items
Providence
Publishers Weekly.
264.43 (Oct. 23, 2017): p69.
COPYRIGHT 2017 PWxyz, LLC
http://www.publishersweekly.com/
Full Text:
Providence
Karen Douglass. KVDBooks, $14 trade paper (372p) ISBN 978-1-5304-5484-6
The swift currents of change sweep families together and apart in this uninteresting near-future sequel to
Accidental Child. The novel tracks the coming-of-age of Cobalt, a child who follows his father through a
time slide. They both land in Providence, R.I., but the slide deposits them eight years apart, in 2040 and
2032. Cobalt is adopted into a family with another orphaned boy, Harry, but that doesn't spell an end to his
troubles. Sea levels have been steadily rising, and storms devastate the city. Families flee inland hoping to
escape the brutal encroachment of the ocean. By chance, Cobalt encounters Teresa, the daughter of another
refugee from his own time, who eventually falls in love with Harry. As Cobalt grows up, he spots a familiar
face in the city: his biological father, Slate, who wants to save Providence from the floods. Despite the
"change or die" dictum of climate disasters, the characters feel uninspired. Douglass writes well about the
conflicts and pressures of found families, but the story sinks under the weight of too many unsatisfying
subplots. (BookLife)
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
"Providence." Publishers Weekly, 23 Oct. 2017, p. 69. General OneFile,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A512184190/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=fc55b837.
Accessed 4 Mar. 2018.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A512184190