Karen Lee White

Karen Lee White is Northern Salish, Tuscarora, Chippewa and Scots from Vancouver Island, British Columbia.  Karen was adopted into the Daklaweidi Wolf Clan of the Interior Tlingit/Tagish people on whose land her first novel The Silence (2018 Exile Editions) unfolds. The Silence went into a second printing within six weeks of release. In 2018 Karen was commissioned by the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity for Fables for the 21^st Century. In 2017 Karen was awarded a REVEAL Indigenous Art Award for Writing by the Hnatyshyn Foundation. Her work has appeared in Exile Editions, That Damned Beaver Anthology, EXILE/EQ Magazine, Impact: Colonialism in Canada, and other literary journals. A playwright, she has been commissioned by theatres in Vancouver and Victoria.

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