About Karen

Karen is an independent editor and writer who specializes in business, health care, and memoir. A sought after writing consultant in the Boston-Cambridge area, she works with thought leaders across the globe and those with a story that needs to be told.

She is the co-editer of Why I’m Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out On Love, Loss, Sex, and Who Does The Dishes, the best-selling anthology of essays about marriage. She has published nearly 50 essays and reviews, and is the author of two well-received memoirs, In Sickness & In Health: A Love Story and The Pregnancy Project: Encounters With Reproductive Therapy.

Karen has taught literature and writing at the Harvard Business School, the University of New Hampshire, and Boston College. Her Ph.D. is in British and American Literature from the University of Utah, and she holds an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from the University of New Hampshire , and a B.A. in English from Oberlin College. She has been featured on NPR, Sundays with Liz Walker and awarded several grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.