Karen Valentin is a proud Puerto Rican-American writer who is the award winning author of several books. Her latest memoir, The Mother God Made Me to Be (Hachette Book Group 2016) is the winner of The International Latino Book Award for Best Family Book.
Karen is a single mom of two young boys, but when she can, enjoys sneaking time away to enjoy an evening with her comadres. She began attending meetings after her first book The Flavor of Our Faith (Doubleday) was published in 2005. Introduced to the group by a friend, she originally joined to promote her book, but soon discovered it was more of a sisterhood. When she’s not writing, Karen enjoys freelancing as an artist of murals and paintings, a singer-songwriter, and creating life experiences with her two boys. Her other works include adult novel The Summer She Changed Her Name under the trilogy title Hallway Diaries (Harlequin 2007), and children’s books What Did Abuela Say? And Block Party (JustUs Books 2009). She has also been a contributing writer for Guideposts Books since 2005. She graduated from Fordham University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature, and taught English as a second language in France for a year. Karen is passionate about travel and speaks three languages--English, Spanish and French. We look forward to more books and adventures from this fellow Comadre in the coming years!
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