Dr. Karen Lowry is a a freelance writer and web designer based in Perth, Western Australia. Karen also works as lecturer at SAE Institute where she teaches film post-production, motion graphics and web design. Karen coordinates modules nationally and, as well as her focus on curriculum development, she has been researching how higher education can utilise artificial intelligence to make students more effective learners.

Karen has a PhD in digital poetry from Curtin University and was the recipient of the Australian Postgraduate Award and Curtin Research Scholarship. in 2017, she co-directed the inaugural Literary Youth Festival in Perth, which was held as part of Propel Youth Arts' KickstART Festival. In 2012 and 2013, she coordinated the WA Poetry Festival for WA Poets Inc, also serving 2 years as co-chair. In 2017 she collaborated with author, David Wright, to create a digital interface for his novella Paige & Powe, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards. Karen was also a top 20 Finalist in the AMPlify Festival’s Bright Sparks PhD Pitching competition in 2015 and was highly commended in the 2013 Poetry d'Amour Love Poetry Competition for "Hinge".

Karen's performances include the National Young Writer's Festival, Noted Festival, Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival, Trobadour Poets, Paris Lit Up and Beaufort Street Festival. She has published fiction, non-fiction and poetry, with her publications including The Conversation, Australian Poetry Journal and WRIT Poetry Review. Karen has experience in arts management, public speaking, teaching, writing, web design, motion graphics and film post-production. She is fluent in NodeJS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React,JS, PHP and IOS and Android app development. Karen can use Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Animate, Dreamweaver, Unity 3D and Unreal Engine. She is currently working on her first novel.