Karen Schindler is the publisher of Baseline Press in London, ON—a micro-press producing hand-sewn poetry chapbooks since 2011. Karen’s own poetry and book reviews have appeared in journals such as The Malahat Review and The Fiddlehead, and her writing has been short-listed for the CBC Literary Awards and Descant‘s Winston Collins Prize. In 2017 Karen stepped down after serving over ten years as Managing Director of the Poetry London Reading Series. She has also worked as a chemical engineer, a systems analyst, and a high-school mathematics teacher.