04/2017 – Karen Thompson Walker is the author of the novel The Age of Miracles, which was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, an Indies Choice Award, and a Goodreads Choice Award. Translated into 27 languages, it was named one of the best books of the year by the Financial Times, Publishers Weekly, People, O., The Oprah Magazine, Kirkus, and Amazon, and has been selected as a community read by several cities and universities.

In 2012, she gave a TED Talk about fear and the imagination at the annual TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh. She previously worked as a book editor at Simon & Schuster and is a graduate of UCLA and Columbia. She is currently at work on her second novel.

A television series based on The Age of Miracles is being developed for AMC by Shawn Levy (producer of Netflix’s Stranger Things).