Karen Viggers
Karen Viggers is a novelist, wildlife and domestic animal veterinarian, and podcaster.
She is the author of The Stranding, The Lightkeeper's Wife, The Grass Castle and The Orchardist's Daughter. Her work is set in Australian landscapes and communities, and explores contentious issues such as dying with dignity, displacement of First Peoples, wildlife conservation, clearfelling of native forests, and modern parenting and junior sport. She likes to write about human relationships, and, being a vet, she can't help sneaking a few animals into her novels.
Karen is co-host of the Secrets From the Green Room podcast in which she interviews writers and other book industry colleagues about books and writing. Her novels have been translated into several languages and have enjoyed great success in France where she is a bestselling author and has won a literary award. Karen lives on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land in Canberra with her ecologist husband, David Lindenmayer.
Her latest novel is Sidelines.
Karen will be appearing at the following events: