Karin Winegar

Karin Winegar was born horse crazy in Albert Lea, Minnesota and never got over that stage--she even took her horse to college with her. Her family also allowed her to have dogs, hamsters and parakeets, and she was always bringing home birds, rabbits, frogs, salamanders and snakes that she assumed needed rescuing.

Karin wanted to be a veterinarian, of course, but when she stood at the blackboard in seventh grade and wrote the formula for water as 2HO, she knew she would have to find some other career path.

She graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota and then attended graduate school in English literature at the University of Minnesota. In 1978, she became a reporter at the Minneapolis Star (later the Star Tribune) and wrote feature stories, covered participatory sports, women's sports issues and interviewed celebrity authors until she left the Tribune in 1998. Her editorials still appear in the Tribune on occasion.

She freelances for national publications ranging from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to PEOPLE, EQUUS, Practical Horseman, Cowboys and Indians, Conde Nast Traveler and Sailing magazine.

Her writing has won Lowell Thomas awards for both investigative reporting and for maritime journalism. She has won numerous awards in the equine industry including two AQHA Steel Dust Awards and the U.S. Equestrian Award.

Karin and her husband actor and director Peter Moore occasionally write a book review column, a domestic spat in print called He Read/She Read.

“SAVED proves once again that love rescues us all.”
Rita Mae Brown, Emmy award winning author of the Sneaky Pie Brown mystery series

“Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful stuff. These are beautiful tales told beautifully. Karin has poured her intense love of animals into every sentence. That love and her considerable genius at writing come through in ways that cannot but touch and uplift any reader still possessed of an immortal soul. And as for Judy’s photos, the woman is amazing. I LOVED them. My god.”
Nevada Barr, award winning mystery novelist

“SAVED is an extraordinarily poignant book. Unfortunately, we tend to treat animals even worse than we treat ourselves or others socially, emotionally, and politically. Redemption comes from changing our behavior toward animals which then spreads to the rest of our lives. They try their best to help us in this process. This book is a roadmap for our possible redemption.”
Novelist Jim Harrison, author of “Legends of the Fall”

"Saved: Rescued Animals and the Lives They Transform," is nearly unbearable The book is also absolutely riveting, but I wasn't about to crack this one without knowing, going in, that each of these tales has a happy ending.
Amy Goetzman, MinnPost.com review