“ You ever get so disappointed in somebody that it doesn't even hurt? You don't feel anything at all.It's just like 'That's how it is, huh? “
Quotes by Karen Dionne
Introducing Karen Dionne
Karen Dionne was born in 1953 in Akron, Ohio and moved to the Detroit area with her family at the age of eight. She graduated from Grosse Pointe North High School in 1971 and briefly attended the University of Michigan before dropping out to marry her artist husband. In 1974 they moved with their infant daughter to Michigan's Upper Peninsula as part of the back to the-land movement. In 2004, Dionne co-founded the online writers organization Backspace. She reviewed for The New York Journal of Books and blogged at HuffPost. Her publications include the novels Freezing Point (2008), Boiling Point (2011), and The Marsh King's Daughter (June 2017), and The Wicked Sister Her short story "Calling the Shots" was published in the anthology, First Thrills: High-Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors (2010).
Her environmental thriller Freezing Point was nominated by RT Book Reviews as Best First Mystery of 2008. The Killing: Uncommon Denominator was nominated for a Scribe Award in 2015 by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. Dionne's 2020 novel The Wicked Sister was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the best thrillers of 2020. Dionne's articles and essays have appeared in Writer's Digest, RT Book Reviews, and Writer's Digest Books.
