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    Karen Halvorsen Schreck is the author of the historical novel Broken Ground (Simon & Schuster 2016), called a “masterfully written . . . must-read” by USA Today. Her previously published historical novel, Sing for Me, was described as "impressive…a well-wrought and edifying page-turner” (Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review). Karen's Young Adult novel, While He Was Away (Sourcebooks), was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award. She’s also the author of Dream Journal (Hyperion), which was a 2006 Young Adult BookSense Pick, and the award-winning children’s book Lucy’s Family Tree (Tilbury House). Her short stories and articles have appeared in Hypertext, The Rumpus, Belt, and Image, as well as other literary journals and magazines, and have received various awards, including a Pushcart Prize, an Illinois State Arts Council Grant, and in 2008, first prize awards for memoir and devotional magazine writing from the Evangelical Press Association. Karen received her doctorate in English and Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She works as a freelance writer and editor, teaches writing and literature, and lives with her husband, the photographer Greg Halvorsen Schreck, and their two children in Wheaton, Illinois.

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  • Caterpillars. Caterpillars.
    So many senses, so little time. #chicagosymphonyo So many senses, so little time.

#chicagosymphonyorchestra #remediosvaro #amarinogelato
    I love you, dear daughter! I love you, dear daughter!
    I finally watched CRIP CAMP: A DISABILITY REVOLUTI I finally watched CRIP CAMP: A DISABILITY REVOLUTION, which was released in 2020 and can be found on Netflix. If you haven’t yet, I encourage you to do so, pronto. My god, the hard and risky ongoing work of disability rights activists—how oblivious I’ve been to these histories. The film, which includes archival footage but goes on to cover decades, is a raw and moving exploration of uniquely embodied individuals, not a tragic, objectified  portrayal of “the Disabled.” It is also a major whopping indictment of ableism, and for that I am glad, because being challenged about assumptions I didn’t even know I held was long overdue. 

#cripcampfilm
    Fridays I’m in Love. Fridays I’m in Love.
    Happy 22nd birthday to my son! Love you forever an Happy 22nd birthday to my son! Love you forever and always, Teo!
    Thanks be for a beautiful mess. Thanks be for a beautiful mess.
    I shared this earlier on my Facebook author page, I shared this earlier on my Facebook author page, so please forgive the repetition if you happened to see it there already. I’m over the moon about the news.:)

From Publishers Marketplace:

Author of BROKEN GROUND, SING FOR ME, and the YA novels, WHILE HE WAS AWAY and DREAM JOURNAL Karen H. Schreck's ALL ARE WELCOME HERE, about a community in a quiet Midwestern town in the before and after of a life changing tragedy at a public library, chronicling diverse characters whose lives intersect on a fateful day, a reflection on the power of human connection in today's divisive world, pitched as in the vein of Jennifer Haigh and Joan Silber, to Jaynie Royal at Regal House, by Wendy Levinson at Harvey Klinger (world).

Thank you, Jaynie Royal, @regal_house_publishing, and Wendy Levinson at Harvey Klinger Literary
Agency!
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