Karen Tischhauser teaches English at Barrington Middle School - Station Campus, in Barrington, Illinois. She has spent the past ten years in Barrington, but began teaching English and Language Arts to middle school students in 1982, and taught in the United States and abroad. Her constant drive to make things memorable and her search for best practice and innovation brought rubber chickens into her classroom about eight years ago. Enter the Rubber Chickens is Karen's first book. Karen's daughters live in New York and California. She and her husband live in North Barrington, Illinois.