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Karen S. Chow, Author

Karen S. Chow, Author

Karen S. Chow is a Taiwanese-American author, who started writing novels as a college sophomore at Arizona State University, while earning a degree in electrical engineering. Now, she is an engineer by day and middle-grade novelist by night. Her debut middle-grade novel, MIRACLE (2023, Ottaviano/Little Brown), is a Grand Canyon Reader Award nominee, a CCBC Best Book selection, and an SCBWI Out of the Margins winner. Her next novel, ANGIE LIU TAKES FLIGHT (2027, Ottaviano/Little Brown), is inspired by her engineering job. She lives in Gilbert, AZ, and serves as the Assistant Regional Advisor for SCBWI AZ.

https://kchowrites.com/

Karen Chow will present the following programs:

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM - BREAKOUT WORKSHOPS

The Agent-Author Relationship [ALL]

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Presented by Karen Chow, Author; Andrea Cascardi, Agent | TRANSATLANTIC AGENCY

Karen will provide WRITTEN-ONLY and WRITTEN WITH 20-MINUTE ZOOM critiques

Karen will provide 10 critiques for chapter book/middle grade/young adult/new adult manuscripts (5 written-only critiques and 5 written-with-20-minute-zoom critiques). If you purchase one of Karen's critiques, you will need to prepare the following:

Novels - send 10 pages of the manuscript and a one-page synopsis for your better understanding of the work as a whole in one PDF file. Note: the 10 pages do not include the synopsis.

Your critique materials will need to be received no later than Wednesday, August 26, 2026.