Sticks and Stones, an animated alphabet ebook - Author

Karen Strom has spent her professional career as an astronomer. She has worked at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Kitt Peak National Observatory and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Karen began photographing (again) in 1978. She studied both the history of photography and silver and non-silver photography in studio courses with Todd Walker at the University of Arizona. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and is held in several permanent collections.

After retirement from an academic life in 1998 Karen decided to pursue her interest in the World Wide Web. She is the webmaster for the World Wide Web Virtual Library - Index of American Indian Resources Online and for Storytellers: Native American Authors Online, a website for more than 50 Native American authors.

Karen has a photography website.