Karen Head is an American poet, educator and editor.
She is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she is the executive director of the Communication Center.
In April 2018, the Waffle House Foundation funded Head's poetry tour project for under-served Georgia high school students.
Additionally, Head was declared Waffle House Poet Laureate.
[2] In 2020, she was named the inaugural Poet Laureate of Fulton County, Georgia.