Art Shows

Group show, Making America, sculpture, Shoebox Arts, Los Angeles, CA, 2025

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Group show, The Dalles Art Center, Dissolve Series, The Dalles, OR, 2022. 

 

Outside the Lines, Spiral Gallery, paintings on paper, Estacada, OR, 2018.

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Juried group show, RAW, paintings on paper, Portland, OR, November 2017.

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​Juried group show, Outsider Art, December 2012, paintings on canvas​ Haverhill, MA

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Group show, Dirty, Smelly, Noisy exhibit, Western Avenue Studios, Lowell, MA, 2008.

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Group photography show, Jean Juarez Spa, Downtown Seattle, WA, 2006-2007.

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City of Haverhill Artist of the Month, November 2010, Mayor’s Office, Haverhill, MA​

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Group photography show, the Art Institute of Seattle, WA, 1998.

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Solo show, Q Cafe, Seattle, WA, 2002.

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AWARDS

Fiction

Water– Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Best Visionary Fiction, 2021

Fire – Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Visionary Fiction, 2018

Air – Independent Publishers Silver Medal for Visionary Fiction, 2016

Earth – Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Best Regional Fiction — Midwest, 2015

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Journalism
National Society of Journalists, First Place, Best Regional Feature Pacific Northwest, 2000

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Memberships
Member of Pacific Northwest Sculptors Association, 2025

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Publication

Journalism
Dozens of journalism articles published in newspapers and magazines around the world. Tokyo’s Daily Yomiuri newspaper, London’s Independent newspaper, Seattle’s Post-Intelligencer newspaper and the Seattle Weekly, among many others.

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Fiction

Blue, middle grade, London publisher Collective Ink Books, 2025

Novels Earth and Air of The Elemental Journey Series, published by Seattle’s Booktrope, 2015. Fire and Water self published.

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Short story “Antique Clock,” Traps

(anthology), Massachusetts, USA.

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Short story “Queen Caw,” Madison Review, Wisconsin, USA.

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Short story “Cat got your tongue,” Stringtown literary journal, Washington, USA.

 

Education and Experience

1986, Bachelor’s in Journalism
Graduated cum laude, University of Missouri, School of Journalism.

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1987 -1999, International Journalist
More than a decade of international journalism experience, serving as a features editor for a major Tokyo newspaper, a travel writer in Asia, and an editor and journalist for London dailies like the Independent and the Financial Times.

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1999 – present, Caroline Allen Book Coaching
Founder of a book coaching service that serves new writers all over the world, helping them write, edit, and publish memoir, fiction and self-help books.