Steve Parish Publishing

Karin Cox is an editor, poet and author who grew up on a farm in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland — inspiring her love for nature and Australian wildlife. After graduating with a degree in English Literature & Communication Studies, she worked as an editor for a number of publishers — both in Australia and in the United Kingdom — before turning her hand to writing.

Karin has ghost-written lifestyle manuals, reference texts, biographies and memoirs as well as authored natural history books, Australian history books, children's books and travel guides, and has had poems published in anthologies worldwide. In 2003, her first book was published in Australia. Since taking on her new role as Inhouse Author and Science Writer for Steve Parish Publishing in 2006, Karin has written more than twenty-eight natural history and Australiana books, as well as children’s storybooks, Australian souvenir books, travel guides and coffee table books.

In 2010, her books Amazing Facts about Australian Wildlife Conservation and Amazing Facts about Australia’s Early Settlers, both published by Steve Parish Publishing, were listed as notable books on the Children’s Book Council of Australia 2010 Notable Books list, under the category of Eve Pownall Award Information Books.  Amazing Facts about Australian Wildlife Conservation also won Karin a coveted Whitley Award Certificate of Commendation for natural history, under the category Conservation Zoology, in 2010 — a year in which she was also rewarded with a second Whitley award, in the Popular Zoology category, for her text for the hardcover coffee table book Australian Wildlife. Karin lives with her partner and pets in leafy Capalaba on Brisbane’s Bayside, and is currently working on finishing her second young adult novel, as well as on a range of fascinating titles for Steve Parish Publishing.