Author: Karen van der Zee

Karen van der Zee grew up in the Netherlands and married an American Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya. She has cooked, shopped, mothered, traveled and written romance novels in Africa, Asia, Europe, the US and the Middle East. She has seen her Palestinian butcher’s bedroom in Ramallah, dined on fertility goat sausage in Kenya, and almost ended up in a bush jail in Uganda. Karen is the author of 34 romance novels. Her non-fiction work has appeared in The Washington Post, the travel-humor anthology I Should Have Just Stayed Home by RDR Books, Tales of a Small Planet, the story collections Female Nomad and Friends by Rita Golden Gelman, and other publications. Karen and her husband have now retired to a village in France where Karen’s alter ego Miss Footloose writes light hearted tales about her (mis)adventures abroad on her blog. You can also reach her via email.