About Karina
Hi, I’m Karina. I write romantasy about emotionally complex people, questionable decisions, quiet magic, and the occasional ghostly love interest. In my other life, I make research data behave.
About
Karina Giesbrecht is a Senior Research Data Analyst who spends her days translating scholarly chaos into dashboards and her nights writing about women who fall in love with ghosts. It’s a balanced life.
Born into a family of storytellers from northern Germany’s wind-swept coast, she inherited both a love of folklore and the unshakable belief that the strange and the scientific aren’t as separate as people think.
She writes paranormal romance for people who want their feelings devastated and their brain engaged, proving that you can have a PhD-level understanding of marine biogeochemistry and believe that fog can be sexy.
How I Got Here
I grew up on the kind of northern German folklore that insists there are tiny men in red pants secretly helping out with harvests, and that you should never stare at someone else’s hands or else you’ll start a fight.
And don’t get me started on the ghost stories—my family told them like they were weather reports.
I went into science anyway.
After years decoding illegible lab notebooks and spending months at sea, I realized the thing I loved most about science was the same thing I loved about stories: the search for hidden patterns.
Somewhere between the spreadsheets and the sea, I traveled to Rügen with my grandfather. We walked those wind-scoured cliffs together, talking about puks and ghosts and the kind of magic that doesn’t announce itself so much as settle into the corners of your vision. Those trips lodged something in me: a quiet certainty that the world is stranger and softer than it looks, and that the Baltic fog is absolutely up to something.
The Heron & The Wren grew out of that overlap—the quiet space where logic and longing blur, where folklore feels like memory, and where a well-timed patch of fog might absolutely be flirting with you.
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