Karen Eisenbrey

Karen Eisenbrey lives in Seattle, WA, where she leads a quiet, orderly life and invents stories to make up for it. Although she intended to be a writer from an early age, until her mid-30s she had nothing to say. A little bit of free time and a vivid dream about a wizard changed all that. Karen writes fantasy and science fiction novels, as well as short fiction in a variety of genres and the occasional poem if it insists. She also sings in a church choir, plays drums in a garage band, and was surprised to find herself writing songs for her debut YA novel The Gospel According to St. Rage (Pankhearst, 2016, 2nd edition from Not a Pipe Publishing, 2019), a finalist for the 2016 Wishing Shelf Book Awards. Other books with Not a Pipe include Barbara and the Rage Brigade, Daughter of Magic (a Wishing Shelf 2018 finalist), Wizard Girl (2019), and Death's Midwife (2021). She shares her life with her husband, two young adult sons, and four feline ghosts.