Lene Karnstein is a Danish-American renaissance woman with an emphasis in the authorial and visual arts. Never feeling creatively confined to genre, Karnstein enjoys suturing stories that employ diverse motifs.  With a deep reverence for the classics, she is profoundly influenced by paragons such as Franz Kafka, Mary Shelley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Albert Camus, Oscar Wilde, & Emily Dickinson. Despite spanning years and genres, their literary lineages have irrevocably augmented her sense of self.

Combining her maximalist prose and lexical verbosity with her predilection for complex characterization and world-building, Karnstein seeks to cultivate new narratives with the same emotional resonance and influence as those who came before her.   

When she is not burdening her characters with prophetic importance, Karnstein can be found attempting to unearth life’s unseen angles with a camera in hand, imbibing on the whimsy of vellichor, and, most importantly, enjoying time with friends and family.