Karen Campbell is a Boston-based writer and editor. As a journalist, she has contributed to newspapers and magazines around the world on topics ranging from the arts and education to health and travel. She currently is dance critic and cultural correspondent for The Boston Globe. An animal lover since childhood, Karen has had several family pets, including three parakeets, a dwarf hamster, and a chinchilla under Angell’s care. She and her husband, now empty nesters, live with their two beloved aging cats in Brookline, Massachusetts.