About

Karen Myna Cantor is a Young Adult fiction writer based on the East Coast. Now a mapmaker, she spent several years working as an environmental scientist in a small Florida town notorious for Florida Man stories. Her work focuses on mental illness, queer identity, and environmental themes.

She is the author of Alex, by Proxy, a YA contemporary in which a boy starts a true crime podcast about his own mother, and Snaketown, Florida, a YA contemporary in which two teen girls try to put their town in the map in the worst way possible—by staging a (fake) disaster. Alex, by Proxy is now available for preorder here!

Photo of the author standing in front of a wall of ivy, the ivy tumbling down the bricks in a lush green mass. The author is a woman in her 20s with light skin and long blonde hair that falls over her shoulders; she is smiling at the camera in the weak afternoon sunlight.