Karen Traviss

Karen Traviss is a science fiction author from Wilthshire, England in the United Kingdom. She is a graduate of the Clarion Workshop for science fiction authors, and has previously worked as a journalist and a defense correspondent and served in the Territorial Army and the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service.

In addition to creating her own science fiction universe in the novel City of Pearl and its sequels, Traviss has authored multiple novels using existing intellectual property, most notably in the Star Wars universe. She has also written two novels set in the Gears of War universe, and serves as the lead writer for Gears of War 3.

Her first contribution to the Halo universe was the short story Human Weakness in Halo: Evolutions. She is also the author of the upcoming unnamed Halo novel series, set in the post-Human-Covenant War era. The trilogy includes an untitled Ghosts of Onyx sequel, but Traviss has clarified that the novel is not a direct sequel to the book and will feature its own characters and storylines.