Karen Elizabeth Rigley

Karen Elizabeth Rigley is an incurable romantic who lives in the heart of the Rockies. Her hobbies include crafts, reading, gardening and watching the Utah Jazz, but she most enjoys spending time with family and friends, and especially her two darling grandkids.

An award-winning author, Karen is often asked to judge writing competitions or participate in writers' workshops and conferences. Over the years her nonfiction has appeared in countless publications from Romance Writers Report to the 1985 Writers Digest Diary, from Housewife Writers Forum to Daggers of the Mind, from SouthWest Writers Workshop to Science Fiction & Fantasy Workshop, and many, many more.

Karen spent three years as editor/director for Writers Rainbow, has acted as first reader for a prominent small press magazine, and has been a writer since she can remember. She is recognized for her ability to touch readers with her myriad of stories, articles and poetry; yet also likes the challenge of working with other authors on various projects from scripts to novels.

Her recent fiction includes stories in: ON THE SINGLESIDE, MAGIC, THE MAGIC WITHIN, GRIT, SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW, THE PINK CHAMELEON, COMPUTEREDGE, STRANGE WONDERLAND, CATFANTASTIC (an anthology edited by Andre Norton & Martin H. Greenberg), CATFANTASTIC II, and also CATFANTASTIC III, plus Andre Norton's TALES OF THE WITCHWORLD Vol. 3, etc.

Her awards include:

1994 The Writers Foundation AMERICA'S BEST Mainstream Novel Finalist for CAT MOVES

1994 The Writers Foundation AMERICA'S BEST Short Fiction Finalist for TUMBLEWEED

1993 Finalist in The Writers Foundation AMERICA'S BEST for Mainstream Novel

1992 Calliope First Place for WARRIORS OF THE GENTLE DREAMS

1992 Finalist in The Writers Foundation AMERICA'S BEST mainstream novel for MOON BAY

(Note: MOON BAY just missed the final cut in the SUNTORY MYSTERY FICTION AWARDS the last year the Japan competition was open internationally)

1991 Manuscriptors Guild 4th Annual Guilded Quill; 3rd Place Romance Novel for COMANCHE MOON

1991 GUILDED QUILL; First Place Young Adult for SUMMER OF NO RETURN

1991 Florida State Writing Competition; Andre Norton SF/F Short Story Division, First Place

1989 Florida State Writing Competition; Andre Norton SF/F Short Story Division, HM

1989 Florida State Writing Competition; Novel, HM for SUMMER OF FIRE

1989 Literary Lights; Third Place, SF/F/H Short Story Contest

1988 Romance Writers of America, Utah Chapter Golden Pen, 1st Place Contemporary

1986 Prestigous PUSHCART PRESS Award Nomination

1986 Silver Poet Award

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