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February 2023
Karen was delighted to become part of the Chicken Soup for the Soul family of writers. Her story "Status Report" about her fiesty little cat was included in the book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Lessons Learned from my Cat.
The book is available from the Chicken Soup website, from Amazon, and in bookstores everywhere.
September 2022
As part of its 50th Anniversary celebrations, Bay Area Rapid Tranist (BART) held its first ever writing contest, called BART Lines.
Karen's story "Swim, Swam, Swan" was selected as one of thirty finalists who, in addition to a cash prize, have their story loaded and available on the Short Edition story dispensers found in BART stations around the Bay Area.
This is an incredible honor and Karen is very excited to announce that in addition to the shory story dispensers in the Bay Area, Short Edition pushed her story out to all of their dispensers worldwide.
The story can also be found on the Short Edition website, here is the link: Swim, Swam, Swan
March 2022
Karen has been shopping a little spy short story for a while and is delighted that "The Blue Pony" found a home with a powerful literary magazine in her homestate of New Mexico. Karen is grateful to the editors of Chapter House Journal, a literary journal published by the Institute of American Indian Arts.
December 2021
It was a year from acceptance to publishing, a beautiful wait. Now Karen is delighted to announce that her story "The Violin, The Lion, and the Truth" has been published in Evening Street Review #32. It can be read on Kindle and Google Play.
May 2021
Karen had a wonderfully unique experience with Grub Street Literary Magazine. Not only did she work with world class editors to publish her story Always, she also had the chance to include an audio reading of her story. Yep, that's Karen's voice!
Check out both the text and the audio here:
October 2020
In the midst of these strange pandemic days, supporting the arts and artists is as important as ever.
Finding creativity with so much going on can be a challenge. Karen has certainly been struggling with creativity and writing new work, but in the spirit of normalization, she has kept up with submitting her stories.
It is our great pleasure to share her story "Possibilities. And Turtles," which recently found a home in Bindweed Magazine.
Read the story here:
June 2020
Karen's short story collection, "A Delicate Pain" was selected as a semifinalist in the Sundress Publications 2020 Prose Open Reading Period.
Karen is incredibly grateful to the editors at Sundress Publications and looks forward to finding a home for this exciting new collection.
February 2020
To celebrate love, Columbia Journal's 2020 Valentines Day edition included Karen's nerdy little love story titled "Pink Salt,"
Read the story here:
January 2020
Karen's Story "Straw Men" was published in Digitial Issue #6 of Headway Quarterly. This story had been shopped around for almost a decade and finally found its perfect home. Karen is excited to share this story with you.
Read the story here:
Winter 2019
In response to a contest prompt for Political Satire (and Karen's not much into politics), Karen had a lot of fun writing "From Aardvark to Zymurgy," which has now been published in the Fall/Winter 2019 issue of Glint Literary Journal.
Read the story here:
Spring 2019
Getting a little creepy, Karen takes a turn for the weird in The Housewarming Gift, which can be found in the print of edition of The Offbeat literary journal.
Read the story here:
February 2019
Memories of growing up in New Mexico are a big part of Karen's work, and she's excited to share that her essay titled "In The Flow," which is about the early days of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, has been published in a new literary journal called The Story Pub.
Read the short essay here:
November 2018
Karen's jaunty story of the sea titled "The Good Buoy" has found a happy home in Switchback Journal.
Read the story here:
September 2018
Karen is honored that her story Holy Water was included in Steadfast Trekkers: A Lowestoft Chronicle Anthology.
The book is available where most books are sold including Alibris, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.
June 2018
Karen's baseball story, a light bit of historial fiction titled "The Dilemma," was published in Issue 13 of SLAB Literary Magazine.
Read the story here:
April 2018
Karen's first foray into the fantasy genre, a short story named "Taboo," has found a happy home in the Winter/Spring 2018 issue of Gloom Cupboard, a wonderful well established online litzine.
Read the story here:
November 2017
Karen's sci-fi short story "Human Sounds" is published in Existere, Journal of Arts and Literature, from York University in Toronto, Canada.
Read the story here:
September 2017
Karen's slightly creepy short story "Bugging Out" is published in The Penman Review.
Read the story here:
April 2017
Karen's short story "Raspberry Vanilla Zephyr" is published in Hawai'i Pacific Review.
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March 2017
Karen's short story "Turning Time" is published in Volume 2, Number 3, the March 2017 issue of Drunk Monkeys.
Read the story here:
November 2015
Karen's short story "The Seal" (formerly titled "Family Harmony") is published in the November - December 2015 issue of Ragazine.cc, The Global Online Magazine of Arts, Information & Entertainment.
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October 2015
Karen's short story "When Opportunity Knocks You Down" is published in the 2015 issue of The Griffin Literary Journal.
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June 2015
Karen's short story "Sangre del Toro" is published in the Spring 2015 issue of Jet Fuel Review, a high octaine literary journal.
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June 2014
Karen's short essay "Mariachi's On The Side" is published in The Tower Journal literary magazine.
Read the essay here:
October 2013
Karen's short story "What Liebniz Never Learned" is published in The Storyteller literary magazine.
Read the story here:
May 2013
Karen's fiction short story "Quick Quick, Slow" is published in the May 2013 edition of Foliate Oak literary magazine. Read the story here:
December 2012
Karen's essay "Merit Badge" is published in Wild Violet Literary Magazine.
Read it here.
October 2011
Karen's article titled "Whoa, Nellie!" featuring Nellie's Cafe in Las Cruces, New Mexico is included in the October 2011 New Mexico Magazine.
Read the article.
September 2011
Karen's article titled "Outings: Las Cruces, Renaissance Theater" featuring the Rio Grande Theatre in Las Cruces, New Mexico is included in the September 2011 New Mexico Magazine.
Read the article.
Or see the article at the magazine's website: click here.
Karen is also featured in the Storytellers section of the print edition.
June 2011
Karen's Living New Mexican article titled "Mission Accomplished" featuring Ardovino's Desert Crossing in Sunland Park, New Mexico is included in the June 2011 "Going Places" section of New Mexico Magazine.
Read the article.
June 2011
Karen's short story "The Broken One" has been awarded first place at the 2011 San Mateo County Fair.
Life Happens in Nine Innings:
Any fan of the game will tell you, baseball tells a story. No, not the dugout stories about the wild plays and crazy players. The game itself tells a tale every time nine men take the field between the chalk lines.
Baseball has all the tragedy of a Greek play, laughs of a stand up comedian and drama of the best action hero movie you've ever seen.
Life Happens in Nine Innings tells the tale of a baseball game with a view from the seats. There are plenty of books about the drama on the field. But what about the view from the seats? Life Happens in Nine Innings lets you watch the game from the best seat in the house, in among the fans.
Score the game as it is told in the story. Every hit, every out, every run is accounted for. Join the people at the ballpark. There are plenty of seats still available! The sun is out, the dogs are cooking and the beer is ice cold.
Hear Karen read an excerpt from "Life Happens in Nine Innings" on the Radio!
Karen was the special guest of Ann Arbor during the Unbedtime Stories segment of Ann's show "Dancing in the Fast Lane" on Bay Area radio station KFJC.