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Welcome to the Schedule A
Child Advocate Website!
If you would like to schedule a Child Advocate please call
our office to arrange a time for Author Karen Jean Matsko Hood to arrive at your
school to speak about her Cookbook titled Rhubarb Delights Cookbook.
Karen Jean Matsko Hood is the Author and writer of
many adult and children’s Cookbooks. This writer also composes playwrights and
is an avid screenwriter and poetess. This poet is also known as Karen Jean Hood
or Karen Hood. She authors as a novelist many playwrights. This poetess is an
award winning writer and screenwriter. Screenwriters and novelist writers are
increasingly popular as talk show guests. Poets and general authors and writers
such as Karen Jean Matsko Hood are great authors of playwrights.
About the Author: Poet, Researcher, Teacher, and Speaker
Karen Jean Matsko Hood began her professional writing
career later in life than she expected. She is now a prolific writer of fiction,
non-fiction and poetry for adults and children. Hood’s first Cookbooks of poetry
present a distinctive combination of themes and poetic formats. Both her fiction
and non-fiction exhibit a unique voice of compassion and purpose. Hood’s writing
is strong-minded yet lyrical. She is a meticulous wordsmith and writes with
passion. Her blend of traditionalism and modernism brings a current freshness
and uniqueness to her poetic voice. She is versatile in her writing style and
deals with a wide range of themes and topics. Her writing has been published in
a myriad of magazines and publications and on an international level.
Hood’s writing reminds us of the importance of our
link with nature and the environment in our daily lives. Demonstrating common
crises essential to our core, her poetry also voices outrage at social
injustices and inequalities. The reoccurring theme in Hood’s non-fiction is
providing a voice for those whose struggles are otherwise ignored. Hood’s poetry
brings poignancy to the most hopeless of situations. She is optimistic in her
quest for dignity and social justice. Hood also writes about personal and
spiritual themes and is a passionate feminist and an ardently active child’s
rights advocate. She writes with a proud regionalism, yet expands her writing to
international concerns. Hood reveals her twin hearts in her writing; one is in
awe of the beauty of life and nature, while the other struggles with social
injustice and inequity.
Hood was born and raised in Great Falls, Montana. She
attended the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University, in Minnesota.
She received a B.S. Degree in Natural Science and minored in both psychology and
secondary education from the college of St. Benedict. After graduating, Karen
and her husband taught science and math on the island of St. Croix in the U.S.
Virgin Islands. Hood also completed postgraduate classes at the University of
Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. She has also completed post-graduate classes at North
Idaho College in Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho. In May 2001, she completed her Master’s
Degree at Gonzaga University, in Spokane, Washington and is currently looking to
complete her Ph.D. in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University.
With her husband, ten children and foster children,
Hood currently resides in Greenacres, Washington. Her interests include writing,
researching, teaching, and volunteering as a Court Appointed Special Advocate
(CASA) in the Spokane Juvenile Justice System for abused and neglected children.
Hood also is a literary advocate for youth and adults. Her hobbies include
cooking, baking, photography, raising Icelandic horses and Icelandic sheepdogs,
indoor and outdoor gardening and cultivating unusual flowering plants and
orchids. Hood also enjoys observing hummingbirds and other bird-watching
activities. She demonstrates a passionate appreciation of nature and the
environment.
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