Karen has lived in the Bay Area most of her life. After picking up an MFA in creative writing (poetry, no less) at SFSU, Karen decided to get into the only-more-slightly practical field of theater writing. The career change may have been subliminally suggested by her poetry thesis advisor, who asked: Do playwrights really have more fun? She decided to marry one to find out. That was seven years ago. She still doesn't know the answer.