Karen Yin

Award-winning writer and editor Karen Yin is the force behind Conscious Style Guide (which was a website before it inspired a book) and The Conscious Language Newsletter . She also founded the Editors of Color Database, one of Writer's Digest's Best Websites for Writers 2023, and AP vs. Chicago , a humorous blog for anyone who 'gives a dollar sign, ampersand, exclamation point, and pound sign about style'. Named editor of the year by ACES: The Society for Editing in 2017, Yin has served on the...See more

Award-winning writer and editor Karen Yin is the force behind Conscious Style Guide (which was a website before it inspired a book) and The Conscious Language Newsletter . She also founded the Editors of Color Database, one of Writer's Digest's Best Websites for Writers 2023, and AP vs. Chicago , a humorous blog for anyone who 'gives a dollar sign, ampersand, exclamation point, and pound sign about style'. Named editor of the year by ACES: The Society for Editing in 2017, Yin has served on the Chicago Manual of Style advisory board and contributed to The Associated Press Stylebook . Her children's books include Whole Whale , So Not Ghoul , Doug the Pug and the Kindness Crew , and Nice to Eat You . Yin is writing another book at this exact moment somewhere in Southern California. See less