About
Karen A. Parker is a Black, queer, nonbinary, and neurodivergent Secular Buddhist from Los Angeles, California. They graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from UC Riverside’s Palm Desert program in June 2024. Their remastered short story collection, The Art of Capturing Phantoms: Definitive Edition, has received critical acclaim from Readers' Favorite, Indies Today, and Independent Book Review. Other short fiction and nonfiction of theirs has been published in The Drabble, Visual Verse, 101 Words, and The Coachella Review. As the former editor of Voice to Books for The Coachella Review, an Associate member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, a member of the Codex Writers Group, and an Author Accelerator™-a certified fiction book coach, they continuously strive to uplift fellow BIPOC and QUILTBAG+ writers of speculative fiction. When they’re not writing, they enjoy cooking, cartomancy, composing music, critting in Dungeons & Dragons, and completing their video game collection.
Featured Work
The Art of Capturing Phantoms: Definitive Edition
Eight colors. Eight flowers. One dazzling, chromatic collection.
A princess's world collapses without warning. An archaeologist trapped underground contemplates death and converses with the sun. A pigeon wonders where hummingbirds go to sleep. A robot rebels against her creator.
The Art of Capturing Phantoms: Definitive Edition contains an eclectic range of stories from speculative to sci-fi, humorous to haunting, hundreds to thousands of words long. In their remastered and annotated first collection, Karen A. Parker challenges genre conventions and proves their mastery of short-form storytelling.
