Karla Huebner has lived on a boat and worked in factories, offices, theater, publishing, oil refineries, private investigation, and adolescent drug rehab; at present she is a professor of Art History specializing in Czech modernism. She is also a fiction writer whose work has appeared in many literary and genre magazines. Her novel In Search of the Magic Theater came out in 2022 from Regal House, and her collection Heartwood was a 2020 Raz-Shumaker prize finalist.