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Karen A. Parker is a Black, queer, nonbinary, and neurodivergent Buddhist from Los Angeles, California. They graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from UC Riverside’s Palm Desert program in June 2024, and they help other BIPOC and QUILTBAG+ speculative fiction writers as an Author Accelerator™-certified fiction book coach. When they’re not reading or writing, they enjoy cooking, cartomancy, composing music, critting in Dungeons & Dragons, and completing their video game collection.

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“Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.”
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