She led workshops at the 2003 Canadian Children's Book Camp in Toronto and was on tour with TD Canadian Children's Book Week in 2005. Karen is a writing instructor at Centennial College and she teaches an after-school writing program for kids and teens through Pegasus Studios in Toronto. In Pure, her latest novel, she explores sticky ethical questions about genetic engineering that today's teens will have to face in their lifetimes. In Take The Stairs, which was nominated for the Ontario Library Association White Pine Award, she writes about turning adversity into opportunity through the troubled lives of inner-city teens. Karen uses writing to understand the world around her. After Karen had kids, she began writing fiction for children and teens. By then she was hooked on books, so she studied English at university then became a book editor and a technical writer. What could she do but read, too? Karen began to create stories when she was eight, and she continued this habit by writing poetry in high school. Karen Krossing grew up in Thornhill, Ontario, with a family who loved to read.
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