{"id":11385,"date":"2026-06-24T22:08:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/?page_id=11385"},"modified":"2026-06-24T22:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:11:16","slug":"kara-swanson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/?page_id=11385","title":{"rendered":"Kara Swanson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill\" style=\"grid-template-columns:27% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Kara-Swanson-Author-Headshot-1-768x1024.jpg);background-position:56.00000000000001% 73%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Kara-Swanson-Author-Headshot-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11386 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Kara-Swanson-Author-Headshot-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Kara-Swanson-Author-Headshot-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Kara-Swanson-Author-Headshot-1-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Kara-Swanson-Author-Headshot-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Kara-Swanson-Author-Headshot-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Kara-Swanson-Author-Headshot-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Contact Info:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:kara@authorconservatory.com\" target=\"_blank\">kara@authorconservatory.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/karaswanson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">karaswanson.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instagram:&nbsp;<a>@karaswansonauthor<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BIO:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kara Swanson writes stories about fairy tales and fiery souls. She spent her childhood a little like a Lost Girl, running barefoot through lush green jungles which inspired her award-winning Peter Pan retellings, DUST and SHADOW, and phoenix fantasy novel, IGNITE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>She is also the cofounder of the Author Conservatory, where she has the honor of teaching young writers to craft sustainable author careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>You\u2019ll find Kara with her toes in California sand as a SoCal resident, belting Broadway show tunes on weekend drives to Disneyland with her delightfully nerdy husband, or chatting about magic and mayhem on Instagram (@karaswansonauthor).<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact Info:&nbsp; Email:\u00a0kara@authorconservatory.com karaswanson.com Instagram:&nbsp;@karaswansonauthor BIO: Kara Swanson writes stories about fairy tales and fiery souls. She spent her childhood a little like a Lost Girl, running barefoot through lush green jungles which inspired her award-winning Peter Pan retellings, DUST and SHADOW, and phoenix fantasy novel, IGNITE. She is also the cofounder of the Author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11389,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11385\/revisions\/11389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}