Karelia Stetz-Waters
| Gender | Female |
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| Industry | Education |
| Location | Pacific Northwest, United States |
| Introduction | Karelia Stetz-Waters is contemporary lesbian writer. She is passionate about providing happy endings and a vision of redemptive love for readers of all orientations. Her novels include For Good, Something True, The Admirer, The Purveyor, and Lambda and Goldie finalist Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before. Karelia also teaches English at Linn-Benton Community College and believes that her 15+ years teaching English brings a level of literary quality to the genre writing she loves. She has a BA in comparative literature from Smith College and an MA in English literature from the University of Oregon. For more on Karelia, visit her website at kareliastetzwaters.com. |
| Interests | Writing, teaching, gardening, pugs, family, disc golf. |
| Favorite movies | When Night Is Falling, An Ideal Husband, Cold Comfort Farm |
| Favorite music | Leonard Cohen, The Cure, The Smiths, Nouvelle Vague, Lady Ga Ga, Death Cab for Cutie, The White Stripes, The Decenberists |
| Favorite books | Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street series & The Ladies Number 1 Detective Agency series, Jeanette Winterson's The Passion Written on the Body and Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, V. S. Ramachandran's Phantoms in the Brain |