Karen spent more than two decades covering arts and culture, Hollywood, fashion, beauty and human interest as a staff writer and editor with Newsweek, Elle, People, In Touch and E! Entertainment. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Interview, Black Enterprise and other publications.
A native New Yorker, she is a graduate of The Brearley School and Yale where she earned a B.A. in English literature. Karen has been a licensed spiritual therapist with the Agape International Spiritual Center since 2009 and is the author of Sacred Landscapes of the Soul: Aligning with the Divine Wherever You Are (Wyatt-MacKenzie | 2020).
Karen is based in Los Angeles and is especially interested in arts and entertainment, memoir, biography, health and wellness, spirituality and works of non-fiction that inspire and shine a light on contemporary conditions.
Broken: A Story of Family, Snake Pits, and the Politics of Our Nation’s Mental Healthcare Mess