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Karen Yin

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Karen Yin is the author of THE CONSCIOUS STYLE GUIDE: A FLEXIBLE APPROACH TO LANGUAGE THAT INCLUDES, RESPECTS, AND EMPOWERS (Little, Brown Spark) and stories for children and teens, including WHOLE WHALE (Barefoot Books), SO NOT GHOUL (Page Street Kids), DOUG THE PUG AND THE KINDNESS CREW (Scholastic), NICE TO EAT YOU (Orchard Books), and "My Kinda Sorta Badass Move" (BOUNDLESS anthology, Inkyard Press).

Acclaim for her writing includes a VCCA fellowship, a California Arts Council Individual Artist grant, a Lambda Literary Fellowship, a grant from Table 4 Writers Foundation, and selection of her flash fiction by the Los Angeles Public Library for its permanent collection and Short Story Portal.

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Average rating: 4.25 · 896 ratings · 279 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors
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― Karen Yin, Whole Whale

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