The author of two poetry chapbooks, Karen J. Weyant's poems have been published in Chautauqua, Copper Nickel, Crab Orchard Review, Fourth River, Lake Effect, New Plains Review, Poetry East, Rattle, River Styx, Slipstream, Spillway, and Whiskey Island. She is an Associate Professor of English at Jamestown Community College in Jamestown, New York. She lives, reads and writes in Warren, Pennsylvania. Avoiding the Rapture is her first full length collection of poetry.