Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel, The Age of Miracles, which was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, an Indies Choice Award, and a Goodreads Choice Award. Translated into 27 languages, it was named one of the best books of the year by the Financial Times, Publishers Weekly, People, O., The Oprah Magazine, Kirkus, and Amazon. It was also recently optioned for television by AMC. Walker’s TED Talk about fear and the imagination has been viewed more than two million times. A graduate of UCLA and Columbia, she previously worked as a book editor at Simon & Schuster. She is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, the novelist, Casey Walker, and their two daughters. Her second novel, The Dreamers, will be published by Random House in 2019.

For more about Karen and her works, go to http://www.theageofmiraclesbook.com/author/