Education
MFA, Creative Writing, New York University, 2019
BA, Creative Writing, Columbia University, 2017
Biography
Karisma Price is an Assistant Professor of English at Tulane University. A poet, screenwriter, and media artist, she is also the author of I'm Always So Serious (Sarabande Books, 2023).
Karisma's work has appeared in publications including Poetry, Indiana Review, Four Way Review, wildness, Adroit Journal. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, was a finalist for the 2019 Manchester Poetry Prize, and was awarded the 2020 J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation.
A native New Orleanian, she holds an MFA in poetry from New York University—where she was a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow.