Karen Fisher-Baird
Biography
Karen Fisher-Baird grew up in the Great White North and spent every winter (all nine months of it) reading, listening to music and crank calling radio stations.
She began a career in radio while still in high school, which was not exactly her parents’ dream for their only daughter. Karen completed her university degree while working her way through every nook and cranny of the local radio station. She finally landed in the creative department, writing the stuff on the radio that’s not music.
After nine years of writing to an alterative rock soundtrack, Karen moved to Los Angeles to follow a boy who became her husband. While working as a freelance copywriter, she received her MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College.
Karen still lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two young children who love Tokyo Police Club and Radiohead, but sadly not The Clash…yet. One of the highlights of her week is volunteering in her children’s school library surrounded by books and people who love them.
Karen has recently completed her poignant and funny debut YA novel—Rock Anthem—about 17-year-old Sadie Ryan, whose lifelong dream of working in alt rock radio quickly becomes a nightmare. To preview the Rock Anthem rock anthem—aka. Sadie Ryan's iMix—please check out the songs below.
She began a career in radio while still in high school, which was not exactly her parents’ dream for their only daughter. Karen completed her university degree while working her way through every nook and cranny of the local radio station. She finally landed in the creative department, writing the stuff on the radio that’s not music.
After nine years of writing to an alterative rock soundtrack, Karen moved to Los Angeles to follow a boy who became her husband. While working as a freelance copywriter, she received her MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College.
Karen still lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two young children who love Tokyo Police Club and Radiohead, but sadly not The Clash…yet. One of the highlights of her week is volunteering in her children’s school library surrounded by books and people who love them.
Karen has recently completed her poignant and funny debut YA novel—Rock Anthem—about 17-year-old Sadie Ryan, whose lifelong dream of working in alt rock radio quickly becomes a nightmare. To preview the Rock Anthem rock anthem—aka. Sadie Ryan's iMix—please check out the songs below.
