About.

Karlyn Coleman is an award-winning writer, teacher, and creative collaborator based in Minneapolis.

She is the author of the picture books The Great Get-Together and Where Are All the Minnesotans? from the Minnesota Historical Society Press. Under her pen name, K.R. Coleman, she has written nine young adult novels for Lerner’s Darby Creek Series. Her short stories have won awards and appear in Sycamore Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Water~Stone Review, Paper Darts, Revolver, and Crab Orchard Review. Her honors include a Sustainable Arts Grant, a Minnesota Emerging Writers Grant, and a Loft Literary Center Mentor Series award.

A former high school teacher and bookseller, she loves connecting people of all ages to the books they’ll love to read. She has taught all ages from children to seniors and has served on the Loft Literary Center Board of Directors. She believes in the power of stories.