KAREN S. DAVIS is an American photographer, author, editor, singer-songwriter, and actor. Her photographs hang in private and public art exhibitions around the world. Her CD of love songs, "Someone Loves," which also sells on Amazon, has a worldwide fan base.==Author and Photographer==Davis pioneered a niche market in equine photography with her "Santa Anita Morning Rhapsody," the first coffee table book to document morning thoroughbred horse training at a racetrack. She photographed all the behind-the-scenes action by working as an assistant trainer based at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California---in all seasons, every day for two years, beginning before dawn.Excited about the project, horse trainer Richard Mandella and jockey Eddie Delahoussaye, both in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, wrote the book's introduction and preface. Testimonials and tributes, rare in a first edition, were contributed by other Hall of Fame inductees. Davis and her book have been featured on Horse Racing TV (HRTV), ESPN, and Time-Warner Cable television. Academy Award-winning producer Jim Wilson called the book, "Magnificent. A beautifully rendered dream." Queen Elizabeth II called her photographs "beautiful and evocative."==Musician and Actor==During her years in England (1975-1982) Karen S. Davis studied acting with Judi Dench and was directed by E. Martin Browne, who brought T.S. Eliot to theatre. After returning to the U.S. in 1982 she was chosen to study music theatre with the genre's original maestros at the Los Angeles Music Center Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in California. She has had starring roles in Music Man, Guys and Dolls, The Mikado, Sweeney Todd, Godspell, Anna Christie, and other plays; starred in indie film; sang motion picture soundtrack vocals; and hosted her own variety hour on Los Angeles television.Davis composed the music, wrote the lyrics, and recorded a CD of love songs, ''Someone Loves'' (1999), after her husband, James Davis, died from cancer. She has been a vocal soloist and choral singer at Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Disneyland's millennium celebration, and major venues throughout Europe.==Journalist and Editor==Karen S. Davis earned journalism credentials from the Thomson Organization's editorial training program in the United Kingdom, which prepared its journalists to work for "The Times" of London. She is one of only a handful of United States citizens to do so. As a reporter she photographed Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Cabinet members.She has won awards for both technical writing and marketing. Reference works for which she was copy editor received American Library Association Awards. She has edited countless books for grateful authors who refer to her as a "Renaissance Woman," "mere genius," and "secret weapon in the struggle for communications supremacy."==Education==Karen S. Davis grew up in Northfield, New Jersey, and graduated valedictorian from both her Northfield junior high and Mainland Regional High School in Linwood, New Jersey, where she holds the record for awards garnered. In three years she earned magna cum laude Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and history from Tufts University near Boston, Massachusetts.