Karen Pierce Gonzalez’s fiction and non-fiction work has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, North Bay Biz Journal, Verde, Big Blend Magazine, and Zahir: Unforgettable Tales as well as other literary magazines and newspapers.

A former journalist and author of Family Folktales: What Are Yours, and Family Folktales: Write Your Own Family Stories, she has facilitated many folklore and fiction writing workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Other writing credits include Editors’ Choice Award, Farmhouse Magazine; First Place Creative Prose, National League of American Pen Women, Essay Award, California Writers Association, a Pushcart Prize nomination and more.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degrees in Creative Writing and Anthropological Linguistics/Folklore from Sonoma State University in California. Her folklore research credits include “Sonoma County Scarecrows: Scarecrows as Folk Art”.

She is also CEO of a boutique public relations company and publisher of FolkHeart Press. Both are located in Northern California.