Karen Phimister:
CLASS OF 1969
Princess Anne High SchoolClass of 1969
Virginia beach, VA
Karen's Story
Author, educator and broadcast journalist, Karen Jones is the author of three novels and two non-fiction books. She holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in English and Education from the University of Virginia.
Jones has twenty years experience in television news at WVEC, an ABC affiliate, as an on-air anchor and feature reporter. In addition, working as a series producer she wrote and hosted the long-form Associated Press Award winning series “The Haunting of Virginia”. She also collaborated with the BBC on its award winning series “Pocahontas”. Karen’s media experience also includes stints as an on-air personality at WNOR, WAFX, and WNIS, in both the talk-radio and rock-n-roll radio format.
She directed the Virginia Writers Conference for five ...Expand for more
years, was an advisor for the Bay School for the Arts, and is a member of the National League of American Pen Women and The Authors Guild. For ten years she conducted week-long in-residence writing workshops on Ocracoke Island, NC.
Karen also worked for ten years as an educator in the public schools, both teaching and writing curriculum. She has taught writing workshops and seminars at Louisiana State University, Austin Peay University, Old Dominion University and has taught courses in writing at the University of Richmond and Christopher Newport University.
Karen lives in her hometown with her husband, Steve, a retired Navy captain. Her son Kevin, lives in Dallas with his wife and two children.
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