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Karen McLeod

Karen McLeod is a writer, performer, creative writing tutor and writer-in-residence at Bookseller Crow. Her debut novel, In Search of the Missing Eyelash, won the Betty Trask Award. She wrote ‘The Eyelash’ in hotel rooms across the globe while working as cabin crew. Coming full circle, her soon to be published memoir, Lifting Off is about the years she worked as cabin crew. When she’s not writing, or talking about writing, or thinking about writing, she can be found treading the boards at theatres, cabaret clubs and pubs as the self-appointed Poet Laureate of Penge, Barbara Brownskirt.

Karen McLeod Headshot

Karen McLeod

Karen McLeod is a writer, performer, creative writing tutor and writer-in-residence at Bookseller Crow. Her debut novel, In Search of the Missing Eyelash, won the Betty Trask Award. She wrote ‘The Eyelash’ in hotel rooms across the globe while working as cabin crew. Coming full circle, her soon to be published memoir, Lifting Off is about the years she worked as cabin crew. When she’s not writing, or talking about writing, or thinking about writing, she can be found treading the boards at theatres, cabaret clubs and pubs as the self-appointed Poet Laureate of Penge, Barbara Brownskirt.