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Karen Barrow is a Trinidad-born Canadian author. Her first novel, Palmyra (2024), won the Whistler Independent Book Award, and it was also shortlisted for the Guernica Prize, the Eric Hoffman Award, and the Page Turner Awards.

Karen's second novel, Dreams of the Alhambra, continues to combine a love of travel and writing historical suspense. She lives in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, where she practices yoga, enjoys hiking, paddleboarding, biking, and is a keen kitesurfing groupie.