Karen Palmer

Karen Palmer (she/her)  is the author of a memoir, She’s Under Here, and the novels All Saints and Border Dogs. Her essay, “The Reader Is the Protagonist,” was selected by Leslie Jamison for inclusion in Best American Essays 2017 and "Birds of Paradise," received the Virginia Quarterly's Emily Clark Balch Prize for Fiction. Other writing has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Denver Post, Five Points, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, The Writer's Chronicle, and Arts & Letters. Karen lives and works in Los Angeles and has taught at Lighthouse for twenty years.