Karyna McGlynn is an American poet and editor associated with spoken-word, New Sincerity, and Gurlesque.
McGlynn began as a performance poet in the poetry slam scene in the late 1990s, regularly performing at the Electric Lounge and South by Southwest.
[1] In 2000, McGlynn moved to Seattle to study musical theatre at Cornish College of the Arts.
[4] Karyna is the author of three chapbooks, Scorpionica (New Michigan Press, 2007), Alabama Steve (Sundress Publications, 2014), and The 9-Day Queen Gets Lost on Her Way to the Execution (Willow Springs Editions, 2016).
Her work has appeared in many journals, both in print and online, including Ploughshares, FENCE, Ninth Letter, Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, AGNI, Witness, and The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day.