Karen Taschek is the author of fourteen young adult books on horses, including"Horse of Seven Moons", the prequel to "The Risen Horse". She is the author of "Death Stars, Weird Galaxies, and a Quasar-Spangled Universe" and "Hanging with Bats", and is coeditor for the Barbara Guth Worlds of Wonder Science Series for Young Readers (University of New Mexico Press).