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 while living abroad covering civil resistance movements in Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia, before returning home to Pennsylvania to report on local news.
While working at her hometown newspaper she uncovered financial mismanagement and repeated Sunshine Act violations in the county’s wealthiest school district, for which she and her reporting partner earned Pennsylvania’s most prestigious newspaper honor, the G. Richard Dew Award for Journalistic Service.
Kara was later named a Howard Center for Investigative Journalism fellow at University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill School of Journalism where she earned a master’s degree.
She currently works as an investigative data reporter in Florida.