Kara Gall is a poet, essayist, and author. Her writing has appeared in The Flintlock and in the anthologies, Breeder: Stories from the New Generation of Mothers, Women Who Eat, and ReGeneration: Telling Stories from our Twenties. From 2005-2008, she wrote a quarterly column in an independent women's health magazine.
Her fiction and poetry are concerned with the body. Drawing upon the rich and generous imagery of nature-based mythology and religion, and intrigued by where the landscape of the body meets the raw edge of her characters' divinity, her work challenges the reader to come to terms with his or her own fears and demons regarding love, sexuality, death, and anarchy.
Especially when it comes to her poetry, imagery and language become two of Gall's most cherished tools. Each poem is an experiment in rhythm and cadence, alliteration and consonance, leaving the reader sometimes startled by the effect of graphic imagery juxtaposed with her soothing, rhythmic meters.
Gall is currently working on her first novel, an image driven investigation into the geography of motherhood and the ecology of love.
