Born in Missoula, Montana, Karen Buley credits her roots to Butte, Montana, birthplace of her parents and her home throughout much of her childhood. She is the author of the novels Perimenopausal Women with Power Tools and Nanny on the Run, and the editor of Nurses on the Run: Why They Come, Why They Stay. Her work has appeared in print and online in The New York Times; Please See Me; The Seattle Times; American Nurse Today; A Cup of Comfort for Nurses: Stories of Caring and Compassion; Inside and Out: Women’s Truths, Women’s Stories; and more.

After a long and fulfilling nursing career, Karen traded the magic of birth for the magic of books and is a high school library assistant in Missoula.