Karen is an interdisciplinary artist and a retired secondary public school teacher with an expertise in alternative education. Her concentrations were Visual Art and English.
She captures her internal call and response to life in poem and prose. Her forte is noticing and archiving the activity and impermanence of emotional and geographic points in time. Her work is fueled by nature, material culture and the cacophony of humanity.
Her "Hometown" and "Guests" pieces were featured in The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram.​ She has been working on completing Orbiting Oz, a three-part chapbook about teaching, grief and home. In addition she has multiple other projects related to place, artifacts and the lessons of life underway. She feels that she has more to share and tell than her—(ode to Mary Oliver)...one wild and precious life will allow her.
Karen is a member of Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.
http://find.mainewriters.org/writers/karen_hand_ogg
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CONTACT: kkhandogg@gmail.com
EXPERTISE&EXPERIENCE
Editorial Collaboration and Revision 2008–Present
Visual Art and English Secondary School Educator 1985–2021
Thesis Editor and Tutor, Maine College of Art 2017-2019
EDUCATION
MA, University of Southern Maine
American and New England Studies 2009
Portland Museum of Art: A Place for Art Institute 2005
BFA, University of Southern Maine 1983
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