Autor/-in: Karen Mccarthy Woolf

Karen McCarthy Woolf was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.
She was born in London to English and Jamaican parents. Karen's radio credits include Night Shift, a reworking of Homer's Odyssey for R4 Book of the Week; Miss Birdie's Letter, a music/poetry travelogue for R3 Between the Ears; and a collaborative adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando which was a BBC Drama of the Week. She is currently working at the Promise Institute for International Human Rights Law as a Fulbright Scholar, co-presenting R4's Poetry Please, lecturing in China and collaborating with various techno music producers for events across London. Top Doll is her debut novel.