Karen Jarvis is a painter and photographer, and the author of three biographies and a children's book. She has worked in the arts with children, neurodiverse adults and seniors as an arts facilitator, performer and creative caregiver.

Publications:

Star Fairy's Top Secret Guide to Fairyland, Pan MacMillan Australia, 2007

To Cut A Long Story Short, Life Stories, 2017

Good Clean Fun, Life Stories, 2018

A Skylark Sings, Life Stories, 2019

Since establishing Little Artbook Press in 2024, she has published Lost and Found (a book of paintings) and Reframed. Karen lives with her family in Titirangi, Auckland.