Take a lifetime of passion for the written word, add years of experience creating characters on the stage, throw in an audiobook listening obsession with a dash of creative interpretation, and there you have the essence of Karen, a narrator whose passion and skill transcends a story “beyond words”.

​My love of books started the minute I found out that when you put single letters together, they made words! Wow! It still amazes me.

As I grew up, a book was always in my hand, whether while eating, sitting in the nearest tree, or hiding under the covers when I was supposed to be asleep.

Then when I joined my two sisters singing with my daddy's band when I was "knee-high to a grasshopper" (as they say in my native Ozark Mountains), I was hooked on performing. So I continued to look for stages on which to perform and landed the title role in my first stage play when I was in 5th grade. And that's when my love of theatre blossomed.  I’ve been performing ever since, playing to anyone unfortunate enough to sit in my presence.
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When I found books on tape (literally "on tape" at the time) I discovered I could read just about any time, no matter what I was doing. It took a while for the epiphany to hit (that I could read books out loud and people would actually listen to them), but when it did, I ran with it.  And I’m still running.