Karen Bowles is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Luciole Press.
Cats know her home as a refuge to eat, sleep, be superior, and occasionally
have a mass rumble of claws and fur. She is from all over the place and can't
easily answer where she is from. If asked "Where are you from?" she usually
asks the person to define how they personally view "being from" a place.  She

is used to weird looks. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a 

B.A. in Literature, loves photography, reading, writing, painting, and mediating

cat fights (the furry kind). Ok, she doesn't like that part, but the cats apparently

think she doesn't mind one bit. When her friend S.A. Griffin took a trip to the

South, where she used to live for years, she reminded him many times to look for

the fireflies. He wrote her a lovely note about fireflies, and that became her

nickname. She started saying it in French cause, well, she is just like that.

La Luciole sounds good, oui? She invites everyone to tell her how to say firefly

 in as many languages as they know.

She told the truth on her MySpace page about her mother saying she is part space

alien to everyone, and now finds lots of notes from people who have outerspace connections.