Karen Taylor is an English instructor at a local community college near her home in Western North Carolina. She also has a group program, the Own Your Strut Squad, that serves as support and guidance for women wishing to embrace their power. Her writing explores how women can better understand their inherent power, experience their right to freedom, and find their own strut and their own Shadow Warrior. She is a mother of three sons, one biological, the other two acquired, of which she is fiercely proud. She calls herself humorously inappropriate, and when not writing, she can be found reading books, spending time with her dog and enjoying the beach.