About the Author

Karen Lee Oliver was born in Poughkeepsie, New York on October 1, 1959. She pursued a potential career in ballet by moving to N.Y.C. in 1973, where she studied on scholarship with American Ballet Theatre. Ms. Oliver graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with a B.A. degree in English Literature and Theatre Arts in 1981.

She has since published three books with Xlibris: Pergola (2002-2005), Tales From the Mirwood, and Tranquility, Solitude and Other Poems in 2014.

Selected Works

Selections include:

• THE LOTUS EATERS
• THE MONKS OF WALLENSBURG
• PICTURE IN THE SKIN
• VESTIBULES OF TIME