Karen Janszen has loved writing since childhood. After studying anthropology through graduate school at Harvard, she worked as a science journalist, helping develop television shows for Boston pubcaster WGBH. Eventually, though, Janszen decided she wanted to write fiction — specifically screenplays. She attended the American Film Institute, then won the Chesterfield fellowship, a prestigious screenwriting award. The screenplay for which she won this honor, “Digging to China,” was made into a feature starring Kevin Bacon; it was the directorial debut of Timothy Hutton. That led to scripting assignments including “Free Willy 2,” “The Matchmaker” and an episode of “From the Earth to the Moon” that focused on the wives of the Apollo astronauts.

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