Marsh King's Daughter (Dionne) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—1953
• Where—Akron, Ohio, USA
• Raised—Grosse Pointe, Michigan
• Education—University of Michigan
• Currently—lives outside Detroit, Michigan


Karen Dionne was born in 1953 in Akron, Ohio, and moved to the Detroit area with her family at the age of eight. She graduated from Grosse Pointe North High School in 1971 and attended the University of Michigan.

Dionne is the cofounder of the online writers community Backspace, the organizer of the Salt Cay Writers Retreat, and a member of the International Thriller Writers, where she served on the board of directors. She has been named a Humanities Scholar by the Michigan Humanities Council.

Her works include the novels Freezing Point (2008), Boiling Point (2011), The Killing: Uncommon Denominator (2014), and The Marsh King's Daughter (2017). Her short story "Calling the Shots" was published in the anthology, First Thrills: High-Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors (2010). The Killing: Uncommon Denominator was based on the AMC series and nominated for the 2015 SCRIBE Award from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.

Dionne's articles and essays have appeared in Writer's Digest Magazine, RT Book Reviews, and Writer's Digest Books. (From the publisher.)