Karen Barrow is a Trinidad-born Canadian author. Her post-secondary studies brought her to Canada, where she eventually settled. Years later, Karen fulfilled a lifelong dream by combining a love of storytelling with her passion for travel to inspire her historical fiction novels. Palmyra, her debut novel, won the Whistler Independent Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Guernica Prize, the Page Turner Awards and the Eric Hoffer Award. For more on Karen, go to https:/www.kamabarrow.org/

She lives in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, where she practices yoga, hikes, bikes, paddleboards, and is a keen kite surfer groupie.