About Karen

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Stories – reading and writing – have always played a big part in my life. Fiction and non-fiction, and that wonderful blend, creative nonfiction, short and long-form, the craft of writing; I love it all.

I’ve had short pieces published in the Bournemouth Writing Prize anthology, The Saturday Paper and in Kill Your Darlings and have had stories shortlisted and longlisted in various writing competitions.

I’ve been a participant in the former QWC/Hachette manuscript development program and the (sadly, now defunct) ACT Writers Centre Hardcopy program, and have been awarded a Fellowship by the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre. In 2019, my first novel was shortlisted in the Queensland Literary Awards – Glendower Award for Emerging Writers.

I hold a PhD (Education) and an MPhil (Creative Writing) from the University of Queensland and divide my time between creative writing and working as a researcher on health and education projects. I live in Meanjin (Brisbane).