Author Karen Leh to hold book signing Dec 12 at Sterling Public Library

Karen Leh, author of Dream of an Inland Sea will be at Sterling Public Library on Dec.
12th at 7:00 p.m. for a book signing.

Karen’s novel, Dream of an Inland Sea, set in northeastern Colorado and southwestern
Nebraska, follows an unusual young girl and her three brothers on an unlikely,
unchaparoned journey that brings together the children’s present and the deep past of
the landscape they inhabit.

Karen Leh is a Sterling native, the daughter of James and Ann Leh. After college, she
lived in New York City and worked as an editor at HarperCollins and Alfred A. Knopf.
In 1995, she graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop—the oldest university
graduate fiction-writing program (famous alumni include Flannery O’Connor, Raymond
Carver, Allan Gurganus, John Irving, and Ann Patchett, among others). In Iowa, she
studied under Frank Conroy, Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson, and James Alan
McPherson. She returned to Colorado in 1997, worked briefly in magazine publishing,
and with her partner of seventeen years, became the mother of twin boys. They live
near Boulder, where Karen is currently studying to become a nurse and continuing to
write.