Karen Traviss is a novelist, screenwriter and comics writer, having received critical acclaim for her first two novels City of Pearl and Crossing the Line. She is also the author of Star Wars: Republic Commando: Hard Contact and Star Wars: Republic Commando: Triple Zero, and is the beloved of stormtroopers everywhere. Karen is a former defense correspondent and TV newspaper journalist, Karen has also worked as a police press officer, an advertising copywriter and a journalism lecturer.
