Books and writing
The call of the water
My swim is often taken while my heart is pumping hard after a run or a kayak ...
Karen Harrland and her family spent several years living and working as managers on isolated conservation reserves in the Simpson Desert and outside of Broken Hill. Karen now works as a storytelling teacher at a primary school, but whenever possible she will be found writing, bushwalking or swimming in the Tasmanian wilderness. Her first book, the memoir Spinifex Baby, won the National 2014 Finch Memoir Prize. She now lives on the flanks of kunanyi/Mt Wellington, not too far from the Central Plateau where that story begins. Her second book, Daughter of the Plateau, was published by Forty South Publishing in 2022.
Karen Harrland and her family spent several years living and working as managers on isolated conservation reserves in the Simpson Desert and outside of Broken Hill. Karen now works as a storytelling teacher at a primary school, but whenever possible she will be found writing, bushwalking or swimming in the Tasmanian wilderness. Her first book, the memoir Spinifex Baby, won the National 2014 Finch Memoir Prize. She now lives on the flanks of kunanyi/Mt Wellington, not too far from the Central Plateau where that story begins. Her second book, Daughter of the Plateau, was published by Forty South Publishing in 2022.
