About
Kara Newhouse
Kara Newhouse is a picture book author and award-winning journalist with a passion for telling untold stories about the wonder and possibility all around us.
Books for curious young readers
An explorer by nature, Kara writes about a wide range of topics from biology to women’s history to sports. The common thread is a relentless curiosity about the ways we’re all connected.
Her debut picture book, The Story of Everything: The Story of You! combines the dual magic of science and storytelling to take readers on a journey through time to understand how extraordinary, long ago events led to their existence today.
Kara is represented by Jordan Hamessley at JABberwocky Literary Agency.
News stories for civically engaged readers
Kara grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania before studying anthropology at American University.
She began her journalism career by reporting on civil resistance movements in Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia, before returning home to Pennsylvania to cover local news.
While working at her hometown newspaper she uncovered financial mismanagement and repeated Sunshine Act violations in the county’s wealthiest school district. That work earned her and her reporting partner Pennsylvania’s most prestigious newspaper honor, the G. Richard Dew Award for Journalistic Service.
Kara has also worked as an investigative reporter in Florida and a podcast producer and host for an NPR member station. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Maryland, where she is now deputy data editor at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism.