Karyna McGlynn

Lens Flare

Terrarium with Heart of Amateur Mycologist: 11" x 17", Collaged paper on gesso board

Saturn Returns: 6" x 8", Collaged paper on cardboard

Terrarium with Eve and Split Durian: 11" x 17", Collaged paper on gesso board

The Coronation: 18" x 24", Mixed media collage on masonite

Queen of Melting Ice: 16" x 20", Collaged paper on masonite

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Artist Statement

Karyna McGlynn’s collages use found and repurposed textures: children’s books, vintage magazines, science textbooks, paper dolls, employee manuals, fabric samples, paint chips, postcards, etc. Like her poetry, her collage work is gurlesque, theatrical, technicolor, dream-inflected, and darkly humorous. McGlynn explores gender, ambition, violence, sexuality and spirituality in campy, provocative, and playful ways.

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Karyna McGlynn is a writer, professor, and collagist. She is the author of three poetry collections from Sarabande Books: 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse (2022), Hothouse (2017), and I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl (2009). Recent honors include a Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing Fellowship, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, the Rumi Prize for Poetry, and the Florida Review Editors’ Award in Fiction. With Erika Jo Brown and Sasha Debevec-McKenney, she’s co-editing the anthology Clever Girl: Witty Poetry by Women. She’s also designing a collaged tarot deck called Paper Arcana. Karyna is the incoming Director of Creative Writing at Interlochen Center for the Arts.