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Karen Bovenmyer

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Karen Bovenmyer was born and raised in Iowa, where she teaches and mentors new writers at Iowa State University. She triple-majored in anthropology, English, and history so she could take college courses about cave people, zombie astronauts, and medieval warfare to prepare for her writing career. After earning her BS, she completed a master’s degree with a double specialization in literature and creative writing with a focus in speculative fiction, also from Iowa State University. Although trained to offer “Paper? Or plastic?” in a variety of pleasant tones, she landed an administrative job at the college shortly after graduation. Working full-time, getting married, setting up a household, and learning how to be an adult with responsibiliti Karen Bovenmyer was born and raised in Iowa, where she teaches and mentors new writers at Iowa State University. She triple-majored in anthropology, English, and history so she could take college courses about cave people, zombie astronauts, and medieval warfare to prepare for her writing career. After earning her BS, she completed a master’s degree with a double specialization in literature and creative writing with a focus in speculative fiction, also from Iowa State University. Although trained to offer “Paper? Or plastic?” in a variety of pleasant tones, she landed an administrative job at the college shortly after graduation. Working full-time, getting married, setting up a household, and learning how to be an adult with responsibilities (i.e. bills to pay) absorbed her full attentions for nearly a decade during which time she primarily wrote extremely detailed roleplaying character histories and participated in National Novel Writing Month.

However, in 2010, Karen lost a parent.

With that loss, she realized becoming a published author had a nonnegotiable mortal time limit. She was accepted to the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program with a specialization in Popular Fiction and immediately started publishing, selling her first story just before starting the program and three more while in the extremely nurturing environment provided by the Stonecoast community, from which she graduated in 2013. Her science fiction, fantasy, and horror novellas, short stories, and poems now appear in more than forty publications. She is the Horror Writers Association 2016 recipient of the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship. She serves as the nonfiction editor for Escape Artist’s Mothership Zeta Magazine and narrates stories for Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Far Fetched Fables, Star Ship Sofa, and the Gallery of Curiosities Podcasts. Her first novel, SWIFT FOR THE SUN, an LGBT pirate romantic adventure set in the 1820s Caribbean, will be published on March 27, 2017. ...more

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	Swift for the Sun 4.25 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mothership Zeta: Issue 1 by Mur Lafferty (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Frank Wu (Illustrator), Sunil Patel 4.20 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weird Dream Society: An Anthology of the Possible & Unsubstantiated in Support of RAICES (Dreams, #1) by Julie C. Day (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carina Bissett (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Chip Houser (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 32 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crimson Pact Volume Three (The Crimson Pact, #3) by Paul Genesse (Goodreads Author) (editor), Larry Correia, Patrick S. Tomlinson (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crimson Pact Volume 5 (The Crimson Pact #5) by Paul Genesse (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Larry Correia, Dan Wells (Goodreads Author) 4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mothership Zeta: Issue 2 by Mur Lafferty (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Goodreads Author), James Patrick Kelly (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The 2021 Rhysling Anthology by Alessandro Manzetti (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Linda D. Addison, Colleen Anderson (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crossroads in the Dark II: Urban Legends by Donna Marie West (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Ashlee Morgan (Editor), Edd Sowder (Editor) 4.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crossed Genres Magazine 2.0 Issue 19 Flash Fiction (Crossed Genres Magazine 2.0, #19) by Bart R. Leib (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kay T. Holt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rachael K. Jones (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Descansos: Words from the Wayside by Susannah Carlson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jon Black (Goodreads Author), D. Dina Friedman (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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