Welcome to the official website for writer and editor Karen Propp.

Writer and editor Karen Propp is the author of two well-received memoirs, In Sickness & In Health: A Love Story and The Pregnancy Project: Encounters With Reproductive Therapy and the co-editer of Why I'm Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out On Love, Loss, Sex, and Who Does The Dishes, the best-selling anthology about marriage.

Karen has a Ph.D. in British and American Literature from the University of Utah, an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from the University of New Hampshire , and a B.A. in English from Oberlin College. Over 50 of her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications such as Prevention, Christian Science Monitor, the Women's Review of Books, and in distinguished literary journals such as Agni Review, Ploughshares and The Sun: A Magazine of Ideas. She has been featured on NPR, Sundays with Liz Walker and awarded several grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

She has taught Literature and Writing at Boston College, University of New Hampshire, and Northeastern University, as well as to private students and online through the Gotham Writers Workshop. Karen has worked as an editor for Harvard Business School Press, Houghton Mifflin, as well as many other major publishing houses, and has ghostwritten books in health, medicine, and business. She lives with her son in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In her free time she enjoys kayaking and hiking.