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Karen Lee Street Karen Lee Street i(9561925 works by)
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Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Karen Lee Street moved to England at age 19 and went on to gain extensive experience in feature film script development and screenwriting. During the source of her writing career she has published poetry, articles on screenwriting and cross-Arts collboration, a collection of short stories, a screenplay, a 'how to' book on screenwritin.

Street 'began working in the film industry as a trainee on local documentary productions in Anchorage, Alaska, then music videos and short films in London, before becoming Head of Development at the European Script Fund (Media Programme), the largest script development fund in Europe. In this role, she set up the first trans-European script analysis service and worked with novice and experienced film-makers throughout Europe. She continues to consult for the MEDIA Programme (EU) and is on the board of the Tipping Point Film Fund, a London-based co-operative business to fund the development and production of documentary films about social justice issues' ('Karen Lee Street').

After moving to Australia, Street completed a PhD in Writing by portfolio from the University of South Wales. Her dissertation 'From Nascent-Narrative to Multiverse: An Alternative Perspective on Adaptation' [examines] authorial strategies for adapting historical crime works into multiple forms, with a focus on transmedia. Her academic career has also seen her teach MA-level screenwriting at universities in the UK, Estonia, Latvia, and run training workshops for professional screenwriters in Denmark, Ireland, Latvia, Finland, Sweden, Canada and the UK.

Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster, the first of a forthcoming trilogy of crime novels, was published in early 2016.

Sources: 'Karen Lee Street.' Australian Society of Authors and author's website]

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead London : Point Blank , 2019 22045277 2019 single work novel crime

'“And I prayed that I would find a way to tell my most honorable friend, the Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, the truth about how I had finally been murdered and by whom.”—EAP

'Summer, 1849. When Edgar Allan Poe travels to Paris to help his dear friend hunt down the elusive criminal who bought the Dupin family to ruin during the French Revolution, the sleuthing duo are engaged by the prefect of police to recover the stolen letter of an infamous Parisian salonnière.

'Is the thief one of the French literary greats who attend her salons, or might it be Dupin’s own enemy who is scheming to become the Emperor of France? Poe and Dupin are quickly embroiled in a deadly cat and mouse game that takes them to the treacherous tunnels of the city’s necropolis, where few who venture into the notorious Empire of the Dead manage to return from the darkness…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2021 longlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
y separately published work icon Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster London : Point Blank , 2017 9562028 2017 single work novel mystery detective

'Summer, 1840. Edgar Allan Poe sails from Philadelphia to London to meet his friend C. Auguste Dupin, in hope that the great detective will help him solve a family mystery. For Poe inherited a mahogany box containing a collection of letters allegedly written by his grandparents, Elizabeth and Henry Arnold. The Arnolds were actors who struggled to make a living on the London stage, but the mysterious letters suggest that the couple played a more clandestine role, stalking well-to-do young women at night, to slice their clothing and derrieres. Poe hopes to prove the missives forgeries; Dupin wonders if they are real, but their content is fantasy. Soon Poe is being stalked by someone who knows far more about his grandparents and their crimes than he does. And then he remembers disturbing attacks made upon him as a child in London. Could the perpetrators be connected?' (publication blurb)

2016 nominated Dracula Society Awards Children of the Night Award
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