This month Karen Stiller will speak to us about The Art and Pleasures of Memoir Writing.
Karen is a teacher of writing and a writing coach. Her work has appeared in publications like The Walrus, Reader’s Digest, Faith Today, and In Trust. For 22 years she was senior editor of Faith Today (Canada’s Christian magazine) and host of the Faith Today Podcast.
She has moderated the annual Religion and Society series at the University of Toronto, a debate series between leading atheists and theologians that seeks to generate critical conversations on matters of faith, society and public interest.
Karen has travelled extensively with her work and has written about life in refugee camps in South Sudan and Uganda, and community development projects in Senegal and Cambodia.
She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Non-Fiction and she is now working on a doctorate in The Sacred Art of Writing at Western Seminary in Holland Michigan. Her latest book, Holiness, published in 2023 explores how Holiness permeates our everyday messy lives.
Karen lives in Ottawa and has three adult children.
