Karen Michel
Karen Michel is a Manhattan-born, Los Angeles-raised, San Francisco-educated, rural Alaskan dog musher now living in the Hudson Valley. She was a longtime freelance arts correspondent for NPR reporting internationally.
My work and my words matter a great deal to me, in the same way artists’ works matter to them. I care a lot how the text sounds and looks; I talk to the computer as I write. It’s a conversation with the listener, the reader, and the subject, too.