Karen Maine is an award-winning and acclaimed filmmaker. Most recently, she directed episodes of the hit Netflix series NOBODY WANTS THIS starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody. Before that, she directed the pilot and first season of Rose Matafeo’s STARSTRUCK (HBOMax/BBC3) and also directed the 20th Century feature film ROSALINE starring Kaitlyn Dever, Isabela Merced, Minnie Driver, and Bradley Whitford. Her debut feature film YES, GOD, YES, which she wrote and directed, premiered at SXSW and was named one of The New Yorker’s Best Movies of 2020. YES, GOD, YES the short film premiered as a Vimeo Staff Pick and went viral, receiving 3 million views. Karen co­-wrote OBVIOUS CHILD, which premiered at Sundance and was distributed by A24.

A graduate of Eugene Lang College, part of The New School, Karen is also a freelance editor with over a decade of editorial experience, including at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, HarperCollins, The Paris Review, SLICE magazine, and Daunt Books Publishing in London. She has edited works of fiction, nonfiction, and short story collections.

Books Karen has worked on have been praised by the New York Times, New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Guardian, Chicago Tribune, Vanity Fair, NPR, Buzzfeed, Forbes, Discover, Nature, Scientific American, Newsweek, Bust, Bustle, Bookforum, Kirkus (*), Publishers Weekly (*), Library Journal (*), and New York Review of Books. Titles she has edited have been selected as a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of the Year, as well as awarded the BBC National Short Story Award.

Karen is available to advise/edit your book proposal or manuscript.

She is also available to advise on screenplays.

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