ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Karen Sirabian's most recent incarnation is author of Hogge Wild, the first in her Gordon Strange Mystery Series. After staring down the barrel of a Kalashnikov in Soviet Armenia in the '70s (for picking mulberries), dodging bullets in Beirut during the first civil war, and swimming (accidentally) with piranha in the Amazon in the 80s, she courted respectability in the form of a ten year stint in publishing. While raising two remarkable daughters, she plunged back into the world of writing at Manhattanville College, where she got her Masters, taught as an adjunct and eventually became Director of the College's Graduate Writing Program.

She left the shark-infested seas of Academia in 2012 and moved to a bridgeless island in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. After several hurricanes, a massive lightning strike, and the onset of Covid, she relocated to the treacherous shores of mainland Florida.

She resides on the East coast of that state and divides her time between writing and hunting for sea glass and gold doubloons on the Treasure Coast. Her short stories and poems have been published in numerous journals including Cimmarron Review, Writer's Forum, The Madison Review, Comstock Review and elsewhere.

She is currently at work on Hogge Tied, the second book in the Gordon Strange Mystery Series.