Karen Yin

Karen Yin is a peace-loving, riot-inciting middle child with one eyebrow permanently arched. She is the author of WHOLE WHALE (Barefoot Books, 2021), SO NOT GHOUL (Page Street Kids, 2022), DOUG THE PUG AND THE KINDNESS CREW (Scholastic, 2022), the short story "My Kinda Sorta Badass Move" (BRIDGES AND ISLANDS anthology, Inkyard Press, 2023), and the upcoming nonfiction book CONSCIOUS LANGUAGE (Little, Brown Spark). Acclaim for her writing includes a 2021 California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship grant, a Lambda Literary Fellowship, a grant from Table 4 Writers Foundation, and selection of her flash fiction by the Los Angeles Public Library for its permanent collection and Short Story Portal.

After Karen founded Conscious Style Guide and The Conscious Language Newsletter to spread mindful language, she won the ACES Robinson Prize in 2017 for furthering the craft of professional editing. Conscious Style Guide was named by Poynter as one of the top tools for journalists in 2018 and is recommended by BuzzFeed, The Chicago Manual of Style, The Society of Professional Journalists, and NASA, among others. She also founded the Editors of Color Database and the Database of Diverse Databases.

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