KAREN LEE STREET is an author, screenwriter, and script editor with extensive experience in screenwriting training.  She has written fiction and non-fiction, prize winning poetry and screenplays.

Karen’s main writing interests are comedy and crime. (Billy Wilder is her hero.) Her historical mystery trilogy pairs master of the macabre Edgar Allan Poe with ur-detective C. Auguste Dupin and received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal.  In Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster, set in London 1840, Dupin helps Poe unravel a family mystery linked to the historical late eighteenth century villain the London Monster. Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru takes place against a backdrop of the Nativist riots in Philadelphia 1844 and involves ornithomancy, a determined female taxidermist from Hackney and the legendary jewel of Peru. Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead is a mystery of alchemy, mesmerism and magic in which the sleuthing duo pursue a criminal with seemingly infernal powers above and below Paris in 1849.  Karen’s other publications include Writing & Selling Crime Film Screenplays, Honest, Tattoos and Motorcycles, guidebook Stone Circles in the Northwest and children’s workbook The Mystery of the Stone Circles in the Northwest.

Karen has extensive experience in screenwriting training and as a script development executive in the European film industry. She created the first pan-European script analysis service and is a transnational expert for Creative Europe, MEDIA Programme. Karen was awarded a PhD in Writing from the University of South Wales and has taught screenwriting at BA and MA level at universities in the UK and at the Baltic Film School.  She very much enjoys working with other writers, whether co-writing, script editing or facilitating writing workshops.