KAREN LEE STREET
KAREN LEE STREET is a British/ American dual national. Born in Philadelphia and a long-time Londoner, she currently lives in Newcastle, Australia.
WRITING
Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster (2016/ 2017) is the first novel in a Poe & Dupin mystery trilogy. Sequel Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru (2018), is set in Philadelphia 1844. The final novel in the trilogy, which takes place in Paris 1849, is Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead (UK: October 2019/ USA: May 2020).
The books can be read as stand-alones (and it isn't necessary to know anything about Edgar Allan Poe or his work to follow the plot!) The publishers are Point Blank Books, an imprint of Oneworld Publications (UK); Pegasus Books, USA; AST in Russia; Vulkan in Serbia; and Paris Yayincik in Turkey. Karen's other published works include Writing and Selling Crime Film Screenplays and short story collection Tattoos and Motorcycles, articles on film, poetry, and commissioned screenplays.
FILM
Karen's film career began in Anchorage, Alaska where she was employed for a summer as a documentary runner and programming trainee at a Cable television company. She followed this with freelance work on music videos and short films in London. As Head of Development at the largest script development fund in Europe (the European Script Fund/ European Media Development Agency, MEDIA Programme), Karen created the first pan-European script analysis service and ran Second Stage Funding. She continues to consult for the MEDIA Programme, does freelance script editing, and runs writing workshops.
TEACHING
Karen has a PhD in Writing from the University of South Wales. . She has taught MA-level screenwriting at universities in the UK, Estonia, Latvia, and run training workshops for professional screenwriters in Denmark, Ireland, Latvia, Finland, Sweden, Canada and the UK.