Karen Wood

Karen Wood has been involved with horses for more than twenty years. After owning many horses, she has finally found her once-in-a-lifetime-horse in a little chestnut stockhorse called Reo. Karen Has an Arts degree majoring in communications, a diploma in horticulture and is currently completing a MBA. She has syndicated a gardening column in several newspapers throughout Australia, has published feature articles in various magazines and has published photographs in bushwalking guides.

She is married with two children and lives on the Central Coast, New South Wales.

Karen's latest book Jumping Fences is available from 1 January 2014, and more information can be found from this link: Jumping Fences, Allen & Unwin.

Karen's Diamond Spirit books, for readers aged 11 years through to young adult and beyond, is a warm-hearted and adventurous series about friendship, courage, a spirited girl, and finding the horse of your dreams. The first five stories in the series have been published by Allen and Unwin, with Book 4 Golden Stranger and Book 5 Brumby Mountain published in 2012.

"… a complexity and richness that distinguishes the series from conventional 'horse stories'."
Rosalind Price

www.diamondspirit.net