Kari Diane Pike

Genre: nonfiction, historical fiction, creative nonfiction

Kari Diane Pike is a wife to one amazing man and mother of nine also amazing children. Her children mark time by referring to Kari's focus on different creative interests, such as The Quilting Era, The Wheat Meat Horror, Organic or Nothing, etc., or to one of the more than twenty moves their family has made around the Southwestern United States. Kari spent her childhood in the mountains of northwest Montana and attended high school in Phoenix, Arizona. She met her eternal companion at Brigham Young University and earned an Associates degree in Zoology and Bachelor's degree in Family Studies from there. Kari is currently the managing editor for Gospel Ideals, International, a doula and childbirth educator, and a blogger for Anwa Founder and Friends. Her favorite job of all is being a grandmother.