Karen Mulhallen is an English teacher and a literary and visual arts scholar whose area of academic research is illustrated English books in the eighteenth century and in particular the art of William Blake. She has spent a life time working on magazines and is interested in the area where politics and culture overlap.

Karen has published 16 books and numerous articles, including anthologies, a travel-fiction memoir, poetry and criticism. She has edited more than 100 issues of Descant magazine.