Karen Menzel (née) Bovenmyer earned an MFA in Creative Writing: Popular Fiction from the University of Southern Maine. She served as the Assistant Editor of Escape Artists’ Pseudopod Podcast and was the 2016 recipient of the Horror Writers Association Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship. Her short stories and poems appear in more than 40 publications. Her first novel, SWIFT FOR THE SUN, a romantic adventure in 1820s Caribbean, is available from Dreamspinner Press.

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