Karen Horsley was born in Somerset and now lives in Cheshire with her husband and their two sons. Following diagnosis with breast cancer in 2014, she began writing poetry as a way of expressing her emotions and to provide a release for her fears. Karen has already found success with her poems ’White Light Shadow’ and ’Stone Archway’ being included in the anthology "Further Within Darkness & Light" published in 2018 by nOthing BOOKS. She is also a featured poet in Issue 1 on the online magazine ’Voice of Eve’. Kaleidoscopic Beauty is her first collection of poetry.