Dates

• Existence: 1956-

Biography

Karen Spears Zacharias was born 11/12/1956. Karen Spears Zacharias is a daughter of Appalachia, a descendant of founding families of Hawkins County, Tennessee. She learned the craft of storytelling from her aunt Cil Christian of Christian Bend, Tennessee. She is the author of A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of Murder. Zacharias has written for Huffington Post, New York Times, CNN, and National Public Radio. She teaches at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, and blogs at Patheos.com