Karren Ablaze! is a writer, publisher and cultural protagonist based in southern Spain. She is best known for her work with Ablaze! fanzine in the eighties and nineties, and as a grrrl rebel in the riot grrrl movement. These adventures are the subject of her first book, The City Is Ablaze! – The Art of Upsetting Pop Stars (available at www.mittenson.com).

She has contributed to The Guardian, The Girls Are, Collapse Board and The F Word.

Her second book, The Carrot Cure, is coming out in 2016 (you can find out more about that book here), and she is currently relaunching her magazine after a break of twenty two years.