Karen White Owens is a lifelong resident of Detroit Michigan. She holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from Wayne State University and is working toward a masters in library and information science. In addition to writing, she manages an after-school program for a charter school in the Detroit area. She devotes her free time to editing manuscripts for aspiring authors. During the 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 school years she taught the fundamentals of creative writing to the students of the Detroit Writers Guild Young Authors Program (YAP).