Karen Healey is a New Zealander writing young adult fiction. Her debut novel, GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD, is coming from Allen and Unwin and Little, Brown in 2010. It involves Māori mythology, magic, theatre, earthquakes, monsters, boarding school, tae kwon do, and the other horrors of a Christchurch winter.
Karen likes travel, chocolate with honeycomb bits, and tripartite sentences. She has earned a couple of advanced degrees, but is still prone to forgetting things like where her shoes are, or how to walk across a room without falling down. When she grows up, she would like to be a part-time zeppelin pirate. Her bio can explain more to the curious.
