BIO

Karen T. Hartline is a graduate of Queens College in New York with a BA in Communications. She worked as features editor for New York Moves and Roam magazines and currently writes for Oakland magazine and Parents Press.  She was recently voted the 3^rd place winner in the nation’s largest audience-judged playwriting competition, PianoFight’s ShortLived 3.0 in San Francisco.  Her most recent 10-minute play, Pulling the Plug, is scheduled to appear at Fire Rose Productions in LA in December and has appeared in Bradley Playhouse’s Playwrights’ Festival and Soft Serve Playhouse’s 10-Minute Play Festival.  Her one-act play, In A Pickle, was chosen for the 2009 Playwrights Showcase of the Western Region in Denver, and has been a finalist in the Kansas City Women’s Playwriting Festival, the Dubuque Fine Arts Players 32^nd Annual National Playwriting Contest and the Nantucket Shorts Festival. Her short stories Beyond the Backyard, Brandon, Til, Kate, and Under Dead have appeared in magazines such as Thought, Caprice, Prose Ax and War, Literature and the Arts.  Among her most recent projects are the web series, Transplant Parmesan and Quite Contrary, currently in pre-production, and What You Can Do, a documentary series that appeared on New York’s PBS affiliate station WLIW21.   Karen  currently lives in Oakland, CA with her husband and son.