Jeremy Teddy Karn was born in Monrovia, Liberia. He is an MFA candidate in poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was previously a Provost’s Fellow and is now a Graduate Research and President Fellow.

His chapbook, Miryam Magdalit, was selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for inclusion in the New-Generation African Poets' Chapbook Boxset (APBF), 2021. He is a recipient of the Stanley Awards International Fellowship (2024) at the University of Iowa. He is a 2024 finalist for the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize. 

His work has appeared and is forthcoming in Lolwe, Poetry Wales, Frontier Poetry, the Adroit Journal, West Trade Review, the Penn Review, Michigan Quarterly, Trampset, and other places. He is the co-founder of Pepper Coast Lit.