bio
Caroline Allen has been a writer her entire life, from storyteller, to newsroom journalist to short story writer to novelist.
In Missouri, where she grew up close to the earth -- planting, sowing, canning and caring for livestock -- she was the family storyteller, later winning contests in school for her writing. She graduated from the prestigious University of Missouri, School of Journalism, and left rural life to work abroad. For more than a decade, she travelled the world as an international journalist, working as an editor and reporter with newspapers and magazines in Tokyo, a travel writer for a year in Asia and as a reporter and editor in London. She was an editor in Tokyo when Emperor Hirohito died, a subeditor in London when Princess Diana died. She wrote mostly social issues articles, on becak drivers in Indonesia, for example, on a country mourning the loss of its princess, on kids writing poetry in juvenile detention in Seattle.
At the age of 29, she knew she needed to follow her calling to write fiction. For the past 15 years, she's written and published short stories, and completed her first novel, Earth, one in a series of four novels, Earth, Air, Fire, Water. She signed recently with a New York agent, and Earth is now being shopped around to publishers.
She's also coached and taught several hundred people around the world in writing fiction and memoir. She's assisted hundreds of people from Shanghai to Spokane in unlocking their creativity and telling their stories.
She is also a successful visual artist. For samples of her writing and art, go to her website at www.carolineallen.com.
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