Karen Bessey Pease
is a native of the state of Maine. She was born in
Aroostook County, and lived “Down East” in Washington
County until the age of four, at which time her father,
a game warden, was transferred to the western mountains
region that covered Somerset and Franklin Counties.
Karen was educated in Maine schools, and as an adult has
been employed as an Emergency Medical Technician for a
local rescue service, a bookkeeper, a store
clerk/manager, and a collections manager in a bank.
Currently, she and her husband own a real estate company
serving the region of Maine from Coburn Gore at the
Quebec border, south to Farmington and east to the
Bingham area.
When Karen is not at work, she is at home on The F.A.R.M.
(Fresh Air and Room to Move,) a 70 acre homestead in
Lexington Township. Karen is married to Steven Pease,
and is the mother of two sons and a daughter; Guy,
Josie-Earl and Eli. Her family life provides much of the
inspiration for her writing.
Karen has composed dozens of poems memorializing family,
friends and community events. In addition to her
bi-weekly columns in The Original Irregular, Karen has
had a poem published, titled Sunset Years. She
has also been honored by the town of New Portland when
they mass-printed a poem she’d written for the town’s
200th anniversary. Karen’s young adult
novel, Grumble Bluff, was released in December of
2008. She has completed a sequel, and is working on the
third in the Grumble Bluff series. She is
represented by the Luigi Bonomi Agency in London.
In her spare time, Karen is busy writing novels, poems
and articles, and she is learning the joys of marketing
her work. She also takes pleasure in laughing with
friends, gardening, improving the homestead, burning
brush, and working on Lena II, the family’s Kubota farm
tractor.
