Karen Zelas is a former psychiatrist and psychotherapist. She is Fiction Editor of Takahe literary magazine and editor of the anthology Crest to Crest, Impressions of Canterbury: prose and poetry (Wily Publications, 2009). Her short stories and poetry have been published in a variety of literary magazines, anthologies and broadcast on radio. Her first book of poetry, COME to your senses, is anticipated later in 2010.