About Mary Karlton

Mary Lauren Karlton has been a marketing consultant in Silicon Valley for 18 years for some of the industry’s premier companies as well as a host of startups. She has been in position to have personally observed all levels of the Silicon Valley culture from the inside.

Prior to her Silicon Valley experience, she was an editor for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and McGraw-Hill in New York. Ms. Karlton has a Master’s Degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto and a BA in Spanish with a minor in Journalism from Northwestern University. Her work has been published in the Antigonish Review and the University of Toronto Quarterly. Additionally, she co-translated “Los Sangurrimas” by Ecuadorian novelist Jose Cuadra, forerunner of the “magic reality” movement in contemporary Latin American literature. The translation is due for release in Winter of 2003 by Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana in Quito, Ecuador.

Ms. Karlton is a member of the National Writer’s Union, The Electronic Freedom Foundation and the Commonwealth Club of California. She is also co-founder and board member of the Write, Read, Succeed Youth Literacy program, a not for profit organization that aims to promote literacy among at-risk youth through creative writing and performance art.

Ms. Karlton currently resides on the West Coast where she divides her time between her professional life, the outdoors and the arts, including writing and dance.