A SUMMARY BIO
Talia Carner was the publisher of Savvy Woman magazine and a
marketing consultant to Fortune 500 companies. A former adjunct
professor at Long Island University and a lecturer for the Small
Business Administration, she was a member of the United States
Information Agency missions to Russia and a participant at the 1995
International Women's Conference in Beijing. Ms. Carner’s first
novel, PUPPET CHILD, was listed in The Top 10 Favorite First Novels
2002 (BookBrowse.com) and, reaping over forty rave reviews, launched
a nationwide legislation that has also become the platform for two
state Senatorial races. Her award-winning personal essays and short
stories have appeared in anthologies and literary magazines.
Carner's second novel, CHINA DOLL was released in Fall 2006 hailed
as "Spicy, worldly, and meticulously researched." Most
importantly, although a suspense novel, CHINA DOLL has become the
platform for Ms. Carner's activism against infanticide in China. So
far a lone voice on this subject, in March 2007, she presented an
investigative report at the U.N. Committee on the Status of Women.
Talia Carner and her husband Ron, have four grown children. The
couple lives in Bridgehampton, Long Island and in Manhattan, New
York.
A FULL BIO
Before turning to
fiction writing, Talia Carner worked for Redbook magazine and
was the Publisher of Savvy Woman magazine. An adjunct
professor of marketing at Long Island University and a marketing
consultant to Fortune 500 companies, she was a volunteer counselor
and lecturer for the Small Business Administration and a member of
United States Information Agency missions to Russia. Carner's
activities in women's organizations led to her participation at the
1995 International Women's Conference in Beijing, where she learned
of the atrocities of The Dying Rooms, the Chinese orphanages where
the documented death rate was 80%. Further researching the subject
for her second novel, CHINA DOLL, Carner received a certificate in
cultural studies from the university in Hangzhou. She then traveled
the Chinese countryside, spending long hours with women-university
professors, industry directors, aging farmers, and budding
entrepreneurs-over her jars of American peanut butter, chatting
about life, work, and the role of women in both societies.
While writing
CHINA DOLL, Carner spoke with former State Department officers
and CIA agents, attended lectures about the Sino-US
relationship, and received feedback from English-speaking
Chinese writers. Contacts within the music industry afforded her
a unique inside view and complemented her own knowledge of the
business and corporate world to provide CHINA DOLL with the
textural, eclectic background against which the plot unfolds.
Talia Carner's first
novel, PUPPET CHILD, was listed in The Top 10 Favorite First Novels
2002 (BookBrowse.com) and won her an Outstanding Author Award
(BookReviewCafe.com). The book launched The Protective Parent Reform
Act, a law now passed or under consideration in over a dozen states,
and has become the platform of a Senatorial candidate. Her second
novel, CHINA DOLL, has become the platform for her investigation
into infanticide in China, which Ms. Carner presented at the March
2007 U.N. Committee on the Status of Women. Carner's personal
essays--some winners of the Writer's Digest Writing
Competition--appeared in The New York Times, Chocolate For Women
anthologies [Simon & Schuster], Cup of Comfort [Adams
Media] and The Best Jewish Writing 2003 (John Wiley & Son).
Several of Carner's short stories entered Francis Ford Coppola's
Zoetrope's Hall of Fame and were published in literary magazines
such as Lynx Eye, Midstream, Rosebud, Confrontation and North
Atlantic Review.
A 7th generation Sabra
born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Ms. Carner served in the 1967 Six Day War
before coming to the United States in 1974. She received a B.A.
degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem in Psychology and
Sociology and a Master's degree in Economics from the State
University of New York at Stony Brook. She and her husband Ron, have
four grown children. The couple lives in Bridgehampton, Long Island
and in Manhattan, New York
Board Member:
* Hadassah-Brandeis
Institute (Jewish women’s studies department at Brandeis University)
* CAVNET and other
family & law organizations.
Member:
* International Women Writing Guild
* Women National Book Association
* Writers of The Artists Alliance of East Hampton
