Karen Menzel (née Bovenmyer)
Writer, Editor, and Teacher in Ames, Iowa
Karen Menzel (née Bovenmyer)
Writer, Editor, and Teacher in Ames, Iowa
Karen Menzel (née) Bovenmyer earned an MFA in Creative Writing: Popular Fiction from the University of Southern Maine. She teaches and mentors students at Iowa State University and Western Technical College. 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 (Karen's publications are listed on her LinkedIn page). Her first novel, SWIFT FOR THE SUN, an LGBT romantic adventure in 1820s Caribbean, is now available from Dreamspinner Press.
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