Karen Paul

Karen Paul has written about caregiving, parenting, marriage, death, loss, and grief for outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Lilith, Modern Loss, Open Secrets, and Motherwell, as well as literary magazines and anthologies. Her short story “Vertigo” won the Lilith Short Fiction Contest. Karen holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts and facilitates grief-writing workshops locally and online. She lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, with Bo, a black-and-white dog who rescued her family.