Description Karl Tierney was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1956 and grew up in Connecticut and Louisiana.
He was twice a finalist for the Walt Whitman Award, a finalist fo.
That same year, he moved to San Francisco, where he dedicated himself to poetry.
He received a Bachelor\'s Degree in English from Emory University in 1980 and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas in 1983.
Poetry fascinated him, even as a teenager.
He became an Eagle Scout in 1973.
Description Karl Tierney was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1956 and grew up in Connecticut and Louisiana