Profile

Karen B. Golightly is the author of the Fairlight Moderns novella There Are Things I Know, published in July 2018.

Karen is an Associate Professor of English and an advocate for autism. She has a PhD in English from the Southern Illinois University. Her poems, stories, creative non-fiction pieces, photography and academic articles have been published in various anthologies, journals and magazines, including Mt. Tamalpais Press’s Love in the Face of Everything anthology, Number magazine and Memphis magazine. She has been a finalist in a number of writing competitions.

Karen lives in Memphis, Tennessee. She enjoys indoor soccer, street art photography, reading, riding bikes, and is currently learning to play the ukulele.