Lloyd International Honors College

Autumn Karen is a small-town NC native turned writer, ghostwriter, educator, and activist. She’s a regular contributor to Triad City Beat, an MFA in Screenwriting candidate at UNCSA, and she teaches Freshman Writing at High Point University, in addition to her work with the Honors College. Autumn holds a B.A. in Women’s Health from UNC-Asheville and an M.A.T. in Special Education from Western Carolina University, where her thesis focused on gender disparity among diverse learners. Her doctoral work in Clinical Psychology was through Fielding Graduate University.

In support of her writing projects, Autumn has appeared on NPR, in Broadway World, and in the New York Times. Most of her work in the last decade has been as a true ghostwriter, however her compelling first credited book, Mississippi Still Burning: From Hoods to Suits, was published in 2018 and her first credited fiction novel, Amy: Book One, debuted in 2020. She lives in Greensboro with her three sharp and rambunctious boys. Learn more about Autumn on her website, autumnkaren.com