Karen Ardiff was born in Dublin and attended
Trinity College, Dublin's Samuel Beckett Centre. She has worked as an actress on stage and television as well as in
Evelyn and
Brooklyn. She has written,
In Skagway, her first play, which was produced by
Guna Nua Theatre company and won the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Best New Play Award as well as the Stewart Parker/
BBC Northern Ireland Award. Her first novel
The Secret of my Face came out in 2007. ==Sources==