About Karen.

Karen Howie Casey is an author, journalist and content writer, published in newspapers, lifestyle and industry magazines and online.

She studied fiction writing at LaTrobe University and more recently at the Australian Writers’ Centre. Her first unpublished manuscript was long-listed for an Australian Vogel Literary Award. This year, Karen’s short story Little Battles Everywhere placed second in the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction. Karen has completed two more contemporary fiction novels while fielding the long road to publication.

In 2018, Karen created a children’s chapter book series to support Australian farmers, with $1 from every sale donated to the Aussie Helpers charity. With the support of a Regional Arts Victoria grant, she is completing the third and final book in that independently published series. Karen also wrote The Misadventures of the Travelling Quirkus, a humorous memoir about her family’s jinxed road trip through central Australia. She continues to work as a journalist and content writer.

Karen grew up in Melbourne and now lives on a windy hill in Gippsland, Victoria, with her people.