Hi! I’m Kari.

I write words.

I don’t want do overt horror. I want to write horror that creeps up on you, that you don’t even realize it’s there until it’s too late.

I am a weird horror writer and thus I work on studying that.

There is no greater feeling than figuring out the magic that a great story uses to make me feel strongly about it, be it love, or horror, or comedy, or drama.

Because that’s what writers are supposed to do. They make the reader feel.

I want to make readers feel unsettled.

Sometimes I edit, my work, someone else’s work, anyone’s work.

Sometimes I’m a writing coach, for myself, for other people.

Sometimes I review really good books or really great short stories. I’ve been a reader since I was 3 years old, according to my mom. I’ve written about the first 10 years of Marvel Studios movies elsewhere.

Sometimes I go traveling through the US with my husband and my daughter.

My favorite place? The Grand Canyon.

I live in Colorado while most of my family lives in West Virginia, but I have friends and family members all over the US and the world.

Kari J. Wolfe is a horror author transplanted from Appalachia who moved to the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies almost 20 years ago. After proving to herself she could do the “hard stuff” with a degree in physics and mathematics, she’s now working on her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University so she can convince herself she’s good enough to do what she’s always wanted to do when she grew up.

Her current focus is short stories with a love for anything dark and weird. In the past, she’s said the darker, the better, but her real loves are simply stories with excellent plots and surprise twists and turns. And endings that pack a punch. She likes stories that make her think. As a young child, she grew up reading anything Stephen King, her favorite book being IT.

Now she’s infatuated with Stephen Graham Jones, Brian Evenson, Kelly Link, Laird Barron, and others. When not writing or thinking about writing, Kari is asleep or lamenting the lack of ideas she has when not actively writing. Any help on coming up with ideas — or more importantly, learning not to self-select ideas without examination would be fantastic. She enjoys old school conspiracy theories and wishes that she received her Bachelor’s in English Literature or Creative Writing with a minor in Psychology. Perhaps in another lifetime, she would. Video games are a lifeline for her and she has found shelter in games such as Final Fantasy XIV, the Resident Evil series remakes, and other horror games. She is a HUGE Tool fan (and anything else Maynard James Keenan is active in, Puscifer and A Perfect Circle as well). She is married to a software engineer named Tom (yes, Tom Wolfe) and they have a daughter, Natasha, who is almost 20 years old and autistic. They have the cutest and most adorable cat in the world, a dark calico named Tigger.

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