Karen A. Parker

Karen A. Parker is a Black, queer, nonbinary, and neurodivergent Secular Buddhist from Los Angeles, California. They graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from UC Riverside’s Palm Desert program in June 2024. Their remastered short story collection, The Art of Capturing Phantoms: Definitive Edition, has received critical acclaim from Readers' Favorite, Indies Today, and Independent Book Review. Other short fiction and nonfiction of theirs has been published in The Drabble, Visual Verse, 101 Words, and The Coachella Review. As the former editor of Voice to Books for The Coachella Review, an Associate member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, a member of the Codex Writers Group, and an Author Accelerator™-a certified fiction book coach, they continuously strive to uplift fellow BIPOC and QUILTBAG+ writers of speculative fiction. When they’re not writing, they enjoy cooking, cartomancy, composing music, critting in Dungeons & Dragons, and completing their video game collection.