Karen Judson, BS
Karen Judson taught biology laboratories at Black Hills University in Spearfish, South
Dakota; high school sciences in Idaho; and grades one and three in Washington state. She is
also a former laboratory and X-ray technician and completed two years of nurses training
while completing a degree in biology.
Judson has worked as a science writer since 1983. She has written relationship, family, and
psychology articles for a variety of magazines, including a series of high school classroom
magazines, making a total of 500 articles published. Judson writes science and relationship
books for teenagers (Enslow and Marshall Cavendish publishers). Her book for teens, Sports &
Money: Its a Sell Out, made the New York City Public Librarys list of best books for teens in
1995. Her book for teens, Genetic Engineering, was chosen by the National Science Teachers
Association as one of the best science books for children in 2001 and was featured on the
NSTA Web site.
