
Karen Romano Young

writer • artist • deep-sea diver • polar explorer •comics creator

My new book ANTARCTICA:
THE MELTING CONTINENT, with
illustrations by Angela Hsieh, was named to Bank Street College of Education's list of Best Books for Children AND is aNational Science Teachers Association Outstanding Science Trade Book for 2023!
books
Press and News
I get around. Here's my calendar.
And here's some press:
• Solve It For Kids podcast, May 31, 2022
• Third Pod from the Sun, the American Geophysical Union's podcast, features my artwork
• Is That True? podcast, August 18, 2021
• Every Friday:
American Geophysical Union Sharing Science posts #AntarcticLog
• Women Mind the Water, February 8, 2021
podcast with host Pam Ferris-Olson
• Connecticut Woodlands, December 2020
"Words of Wonder: Connecticut Authors Connect Kids with Nature"
• Thriving Online: Explore Offline Tactics for Thriving Online, December 14, 2020
internet broadcast, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, with host Andy Revkin and Angelica Patterson, Richard Louv, and Paul Greenberg
• Thriving Online: Drawing and Painting Paths to Sustainability, October 5, 2020
The Earth Institute, Columbia University, with host Andy Revkin and Pat Bagley
• YOUTUBE readaloud of A Girl, a Raccoon and the Midnight Moon
March to May 2020 but just as good today (and for the next 52 days!)
• #AntarcticLog at the Smithsonian Ocean Portal.