Karen Stollznow (born 12 August 1976[citation needed]) is an Australian-American author, linguist, public speaker, and podcaster.

[10] Stollznow also writes short fiction, including the title Fisher's Ghost and Other Stories, and she is a host on the podcast Monster Talk with Blake Smith.

In 2005, she became a Researcher for the Script Encoding Initiative, a joint project between the UC Berkeley Department of Linguistics, and the Unicode Consortium.

[3] Stollznow is an expatriate Australian and formerly lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

[citation needed] Stollznow lives with her husband Matthew Baxter and their son in Denver, Colorado.