Kara Dorris

Submitted on Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Graduation Year: '03, ’06 M.A., ’16 Ph.D.
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Dr. Kara Dorris, South Jacksonville, Illinois, edited the book, Writing the Self-Elegy: The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink, an anthology in which 28 poets reflect on personal writing. An assistant professor of English at Illinois College, Kara has written two previous books, When the Body is a Guardrail and Have Ruin, Will Travel.