Karen Stoff earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing, and she focuses on upmarket fiction plus non-fiction essays. A member of AWP, she published an essay titled "Eastbound" in the Fall 2021 issue of 105 Meadowlark. Her short story, "Dust Lore," appears in the Sep 20, 2019, edition of Flash Fiction Magazine. She has also published two fantasy novels under a pseudonym.

Works in progress include:

- Dryden By Midnight, a fictional ultracycling race for life
- Memory Errors, a novel about code and saying goodbye