Karen Buley

Karen Buley is the author of the novels Perimenopausal Women with Power Tools and Nanny on the Run. Her collection of nurses’ stories, Nurses on the Run: Why They Come, Why They Stay, was a "Best Books 2010" USA Book News finalist. Her essays have appeared in Family Circle, American Nurse Today, A Cup of Comfort for Nurses: Stories of Caring and Compassion, and Inside and Out: Women’s Truths, Women’s Stories. After years of obstetrical nursing, she traded the magic of birth for the magic of books and is a high school library assistant in Missoula, Montana. In 2013-2014, via the Missoula International Friendship Program, she and her husband formed a special relationship with an exchange student from Lyon. Visit her at www.karenbuley.com or on Facebook @karenbuleybooks or Twitter @karenbuley.