Karen A. Romanko has seen over 100 of her poems and short stories published in venues such as Strange Horizons, Ideomancer, Lone Star Stories, The Pedestal Magazine, Dreams and Nightmares, and Full Unit Hookup. Her first poetry collection, Raven's Runes: Equations in Time, was released by Sam's Dot Publishing in 2004. She also edits and publishes the speculative fiction and mystery e-zine Raven Electrick. You can find out more about her work by visiting her author page and blog.

Karen serves as Website Director for the Science Fiction Poetry Association and is an Active Member of HWA. When not hunched at the computer, she enjoys the L. A. sun with her biologist husband, Bob Desharnais. A long-time movie buff, Karen loves the proximity to Tinseltown, but misses the fall foliage of her native Boston and always roots for the Red Sox.