Canadian-born and -raised, Karen Goa swapped a hospital pharmacist's white coat in flat and frozen Saskatchewan for a writing and editing career in New Zealand. With her eye for the absurd she has penned numerous blackly comedic short stories for broadcast on Radio New Zealand National. Karen is also an award-winning travel writer, with travel articles and photographs published in many New Zealand print outlets. She has authored two entertaining travel books, the motorcycling cult classic Bitten by the Bullet: Motorcycle Adventures in India (co-authored with tour guide Steve Krzystyniak), and One Flat Coyote on the Centre Line: Cruising Canada in a classic Chevy (Highly Commended in the Whitcoulls Travcom Travel Book of the Year awards). Karen lives in Auckland with her boat builder husband. Her flying trapeze career was short and shambolic.