Kari Trogen

Kari Trogen is a writer of historical coming-of-age fiction with gothic and folklore elements. Against the backdrop of the interwar years, she writes intimately about girlhood, grief, first love, artists, myths, mothering, and memory.

Kari’s crossover fiction debut THE DANCING ONES, a 1930s novel in the vein of I Capture the Castle, is being represented by Rachel Petty.

A Canadian with one parent from Western Canada and one from Eastern Canada, Kari grew up in Edmonton with her two younger sisters. Between them, they amassed an impressive amount of dance costumes.

Kari studied English literature in her hometown and at Royal Holloway, University of London. She holds an MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick, where she wrote a play based on the life and journals of Anne of Green Gables author L.M. Montgomery.

Before writing coming-of-age novels, she published as an author of middle grade magic realism. Her co-written novel Margaret and the Moth Tree (with her sister Brit Trogen) won the 2013 kids’ choice award for middle grade fiction from the Ontario Library Association.

She lives in East Toronto with her husband and two children. She can usually be found haunting a coffee shop in between school runs.