Karen J HeadKaren J. Head, PhD, is the author of Disrupt This!: MOOCs and the Promises of Technology (a nonfiction book about issues in contemporary higher education), as well as five books of poetry (Lost on Purpose, Sassing, My Paris Year, Shadow Boxes and On ccasion: Four Poets, One Year). She also co-edited the poetry anthologies Mother Mary Comes to Me: An Anthology of Popular Culture and Teaching as a Human Experience: An Anthology of Poetry, and has exhibited several acclaimed digital poetry projects, including her project "Monumental" (part of Antony Gormley's One and Other Project) which was detailed in a TIME online mini-documentary. Her poetry appears in a number of national and international journals and anthologies. In 2010 she won the Oxford International Women's Festival Poetry Prize. She is editor of the international poetry journal Atlanta Review. On a more unusual note, she is currently the Poet Laureate of Waffle House - a title that reflects an outreach program to bring arts awareness to rural high schools in Georgia, which has been generously sponsored by the Waffle House Foundation. She was the inaugural Poet Laureate of Fulton County, Georgia. She is the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, and Professor of English and World Languages, at Augusta University. For twenty years, Head has been a visiting artist and scholar at the Institute for American Studies at Technische Universität Dortmund in Germany. Read More Read Less