Karen Lee White is Salish, Tuscarora, Chippewa, and Scots who lives in the territory of the l?k n and Xwsepsum People (Vancouver Island, British Columbia). Karen was adopted by the Dak`laweidí Wolf Clan of the Interior Tlingit-Tagish people on whose land her second novel Bonewalker unfolds. The Silence, her first novel - which includes a CD?of the author's original music - was released in 2018, and went into a second printing after just six weeks. In 2018 the Banff Centre commissioned a short story for their large box set Fables of the 21st Century (a limited edition for gala fundraising), and in 2017 Karen was awarded an Indigenous Art Award for Writing by the Hnatyshyn Foundation. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Impact: Colonialism in Canada, That Damned Beaver, Bawaajigan, and Mother, as well as the periodicals Verb, EXILE, alive, among others. She is also a playwright, and has been commissioned by theatres in Vancouver and Victoria. Karen lives on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.