Bio

As an artist for the past 13 years, I have been writing fiction, and doing fine art photography and painting, as well as exploring other mediums, such as collage and puppet-making. Visit my writing website at www.carolineallen.com/WritingHome.html. I am also a writing coach, helping people around the world write memoir, fiction and nonfiction, www.artofstorytellingonline.com.

Prior to becoming an artist, I spent many years as an international journalist – as an editor and reporter with newspapers and magazines in Tokyo and London and as a travel writer for a year in Asia. I wrote stories on becak drivers in Indonesia, on island paradises in the Philippines, on kids in juvenile detention in Seattle.

I loved this world, but also knew at the age of 29 that I needed to leave it to follow my calling to be an artist.

Experience

• I graduated cum laude from the top journalism school in the U.S., the University of Missouri, School of Journalism.

  

• I have a decade of international writing 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.

• I served in Seattle as an entertainment journalist for the Seattle PI, the Seattle Weekly, and national magazines.

• I have been a fiction writer for more than a decade. Recently I took a year-long sabbatical to Europe to finish my novel, Earth. I am now seeking a publisher/agent for the novel.

• I have been a writing teacher/writing coach for 10 years, assisting hundreds of people from Shanghai to Spokane in unlocking their creativity and telling their stories. I have taught at the CityLit Institute in London, at the Art Institute of Seattle, at the nonprofit artists cooperative SAW, at community colleges in the Seattle area. Individual clients via one-on-one coaching are writing memoir, novels and self-help books and live all over the world. 

Shows

• Region-wide Missouri art contest, sketch of church, Best of Show Trophy, 1976.

• Citywide School Art Contest, Doodles (sketch), First Place Ribbon, Jefferson City, Missouri, 1977.

• Photography, Group Show at the Art Institute of Seattle, WA, 1998.

• Photography Show, Q Cafe, Seattle, WA, 2002.

• Santoros Bookstore, semi-permanent display, photographs and paintings, 2006-2008.

• Group Show, Photographs, Jean Juarez Spa, Downtown Seattle, WA, 2006-2007.

• Mural, Wheel of Fortune, 25 Brody Sandor Utca, Budapest, Hungary, 2007.

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