Unlikely Phosphenes

Karen Schauber’s work appears in 50 international literary magazines, journals, and anthologies, including Bending Genres, Cease Cows, Ekphrastic Review, Fiction Southeast, New World Writing, and Spelk Fiction. ‘The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings’ (Heritage House, 2019), celebrating the Canadian modernist landscape painters, is her first editorial/curatorial flash fiction anthology, winning ‘Silver’ in The Miramichi Reader’s “The Very Best” Book Award for Short Fiction” 2020. Schauber curates ‘Vancouver Flash Fiction’—a resource hub, and ‘Miramichi Flash’—a monthly literary column. In her spare time, she is a seasoned Family Therapist. Her abstract paintings are an expression of the dreamscape where she hones her craft.