Karen Marie Connelly (born 12 March 1969) is a Canadian travel writer, novelist[1] and poet who has written extensively about her experiences living in Greece, Thailand and Canada.
She also reworked the letters and journals, which she had written in Thailand, into a manuscript that was to become Touch the Dragon by Karen Connelly.
[citation needed] In 1991, she moved to France and settled in Montclar, Avignon, where she studied French and Spanish.
Her second book, Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal (1992), won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction.
In 1996, she returned to Thailand and also visited Myanmar (she prefers the older name, Burma[citation needed]).