Karen Hines is the author of Crawlspace, All the Little Animals I Have Eaten, Drama: Pilot Episode, Hello... Hello (A Romantic Satire) and The Pochsy Plays - all published by Coach House Books. Her plays and productions have been presented internationally, and have won many production and literary nominations and awards including twice being finalist for the Governor General's Award for Drama and shortlisted for the 2020 Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. A Second City alumna, and an associate of One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre, Karen has also appeared in numerous television and film productions and is the award-winning director of cult horror clowns Mump & Smoot. Raised by scientists in Toronto, she now lives in Calgary.