bio
I have been a writer my entire life, from storyteller, to newsroom journalist to short story writer to novelist.
In Missouri, where I grew up close to the earth -- planting, sowing, canning and caring for livestock -- I was the family storyteller, later winning contests in school for writing. I graduated from the prestigious University of Missouri, School of Journalism, and left rural life to work abroad. For more than a decade, I travelled 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. I was an editor in Tokyo when Emperor Hirohito died, a subeditor in London when Princess Diana died. I covered mostly social issues, becak drivers in Indonesia, a country mourning the loss of its princess, kids writing poetry in juvenile detention in Seattle.
At the age of 29, I knew I had to follow my calling to write fiction. For the past 15 years, I've written and published short stories, and completed Earth, one in a series of four novels, Earth, Air, Fire, Water. I signed with a New York agent, and Earth is being shopped around to publishers.
I've also coached and taught several hundred people around the world in writing fiction and memoir. I've assisted hundreds of people from Shanghai to Spokane in unlocking their creativity and telling their stories.
I am also a visual artist. For samples of writing and art, go to www.carolineallen.com.
* Photo by Myles Blankenship.
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