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Karen A. Parker is a Black, bi, nonbinary author and editor of speculative fiction. They will graduate with an MFA in Fiction at UC Riverside Palm Desert. When they’re not reading or writing, they enjoy cooking, cartomancy, composing music, critting in Dungeons & Dragons, and completing their video game collection.

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Karen A. Parker is a Black, bi, nonbinary author and editor of speculative fiction as well as a Secular Buddhist. 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 Impact Fellowship Recipient of Author Accelerator, 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.

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Karen A. Parker is a Black, bi, nonbinary author and editor of speculative fiction, a Secular Buddhist, and an intrepid entrepreneur from Los Angeles, California. After graduating cum laude from UC Irvine with a BA in English, a Creative Writing Emphasis in Fiction, and a minor in Japanese Language and Literature, they taught English in Gifu, Japan, for three years as an Assistant Language Teacher. Graduating from UC Riverside’s Palm Desert MFA Program, they have extensively researched Esoteric Buddhism, oral storytelling tradition, and Black liberation for their second-world romantasy novel, the early pages of which will serve as their creative thesis.

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 Impact Fellowship Recipient of Author Accelerator, 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.