Karen Lee Street

KAREN LEE STREET has extensive experience in screenwriting training and as a script development executive in the European film industry. She has written ‘how to’ book Writing and Selling Crime Film Screenplays and is a commissioned and produced screenwriter.

Karen’s crime writing includes a historical mystery trilogy that pairs master of the macabre Edgar Allan Poe with ur-detective C. Auguste Dupin. Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster, set in London 1840, was inspired by the unsolved case of the late eighteenth century villain that terrorised London. Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru takes place against a backdrop of the Nativist riots in Philadelphia 1844 and involves ornithomancy and a determined female taxidermist from Hackney. Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead is a mystery of alchemy, mesmerism and magic in which the sleuthing duo pursue Poe’s nemesis above and below Paris in 1849.

Karen was awarded a PhD in Writing from the University of South Wales and her other publications include Tattoos and Motorcycles, a collection of interconnected short stories that centre on a crime.