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During her Ph.D. in neuroscience at Harvard University, she studied mosquito brains by blasting them with an electron beam, and now she teaches academic writing to STEM graduate students. She has eight ear piercings for no reason. Her favorite activities include cooking, tending her plants, singing, and playing her violin. She is the author of Pangu’s Shadow, the Dove Chronicles trilogy, and a contributor to the YA mental health anthology Ab(solutely) Normal. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Follow her on Instagram for a glimpse of life outside writing. 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Contributors include Nora Shalaway Carpenter and Rocky Callen (the anthologists), Mercedes Acosta, Karen Bao, James Bird, Alechia Dow, Patrick Downes, Anna Drury, Nikki Grimes, Val Howlett, Jonathan Lenore Kastin, Sonia Patel, Marcella Pixley, Isabel Quintero, Ebony Stewart, and Francisco X. Stork. Coming on April 11, 2023! https://www.karenbao.com/media-kit daily 0.75 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb92eee4b0a13f76694fb8/af2a2758-6107-4685-8e25-99c36c7cc5df/IMG_0145+2.JPG Contact & Media Kit - Media Kit Short Bio Karen Jialu Bao does science in the lab, then goes home and writes about it. During her Ph.D. at Harvard University, she studied mosquito brains by blasting them with an electron beam, and now she teaches academic writing to STEM graduate students. She is the author of Pangu’s Shadow (Lerner), the Dove Chronicles trilogy (Penguin), and a contributor to the YA mental health anthology Ab(solutely) Normal (Candlewick). Download headshot here. 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