Karen Nobbe-Stephens is a veteran business communications specialist and writer living in Bloomington, Minnesota. She consults for a wide range of consumer and business-to-business organizations in the Twin Cities and all the while has sustained a lifelong affair with books. She and fellow members of The Mean, Radical Feminist Book Club are celebrating their sixteenth year of incisively dissecting the written word. With all this book-loving, she believes she has developed a sense of how to explore the most interesting aspects of the Twin Cities' literary world. Her email address is nobbestephens@earthlink.net.