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Welcome to the Home Page
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KAREN
JORDAN ALLEN
 writer of fantasy, science fiction, and other literary adventures |
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ABOUT ME
 I started
reading, making up stories, and playing the piano when I was five - if
not sooner -
and never stopped. Well, hardly ever. After brief
forays
into graduate school, the pastorate, college publications, and high
school teaching, I now write fantasy and science fiction at my home
in Maine. I also
play
the piano for several school choruses and my church, and I love
spending time outdoors. A former Spanish teacher, I have
traveled to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Argentina, and Peru, as well
as England, Canada, and China. I am an active member of the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and the Society
of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS "Alternate Anxieties," Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss, eds., Interstitial Arts Foundation: April 2007. Reprinted in Otherworldly Maine, Noreen Doyle, ed., Down East Books: 2008.
“'a
marvellous, touching example of
experimental writings gone right"
-AS if! Australian Specfic in
focus/Tansy Rayner Roberts
"Godburned,"
Asimov's
Science Fiction, September 2006.
"a well-crafted merging of cultures and spirituality"
-Tangent Online/Suzanne
Church
"captures an outsider's experience of
Mexico beautifully."
-Locus/Nick Gevers
"Orqo Afloat on the Willkamayu," The First Heroes: New Tales of the Bronze Age, Harry Turtledove and Noreen Doyle, eds., Tor: May 2004.
"full of interesting detail about Inca life . . . the ending snaps with
energy."
-SFSite.com/Sherwood
Smith on "Orqo Afloat on the Willkamayu"
NEWS
AND NOTES
2/21/09 "Alternate Anxieties" has been reprinted in a new anthology from Down East Books, Otherworldly Maine,
edited by Noreen Doyle. My story is one of twenty-one tales of fantasy and science fiction with a Maine
connection. The book includes original as well as reprinted fiction, and has had some great reviews. Check it out!
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I occasionally turn
up at science fiction conventions in the Northeast, such as Boskone and
Readercon. I am also a regular attender of SCBWI-New England's
fabulous annual conference in Nashua, New Hampshire (which, alas, I will miss this year for family reasons).
Photo
by Noreen Doyle
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LINKS
SFWA
- Science
Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
SCBWI - Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators SCBWI-New England - New England regional chapter of SCBWI |
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