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Karol Nielsen

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KAROL NIELSEN is the author of the memoirs Raising the Price of the House (Finishing Line Press, 2024), Walking A&P (Mascot Books, 2018), and Black Elephants (Bison Books, 2011). Her first memoir was shortlisted for the 2012 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing in nonfiction and was selected as a 2011 Poets & Writers New and Noteworthy Book. Excerpts were honored as Notable Essays in The Best American Essays 2010 and 2005.

Her poetry chapbooks include Small Life (Finishing Line Press, 2022), Vietnam Made Me Who I Am (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and This Woman I Thought I’d Be (Finishing Line Press, 2012). Her forthcoming collection, Cowgirl (Finishing Line Press), was a semifinalist for the 2025 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Compet
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Black Elephants: A Memoir

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