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. Her second novel, Dreams of the Alhambra, was published March 2026. For more on Karen, go to https:/www.karenbarrowbooks.com

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