Kara L Zajac
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Kara L Zajac

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Kara Zajac is a freelance writer, chiropractor, mother of a daughter, wife, entrepreneur, musician, and diehard romantic. She received her Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Life College of Chiropractic and for the last twenty years has maintained a private wellness practice in Dawsonville, GA, where she helps people revitalize their lives by healing the brain and body naturally with chiropractic care, energy work, and Braincore Neurofeedback Therapy. Kara is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist who started playing drums at two years old and currently tours the Southeast with The Jessie Albright Band and The Randall Davis Revival. The Significance of Curly Hair: A Loving Memoir of Life and Loss is Kara's debut, released by Atmosphere Press on July 16, 2024. The Independent Book Review chose The Significance of Curly Hair: A Loving Memoir of Life and Loss as one of the Best Books We Read in 2024. Zajac's debut won the 2025 IPPY Award's silver medal for Inspirational Non-fiction. Also winning first-place awards for transformational nonfiction from The Bookfest and the Literary Titan Gold Book Award. An excerpt from her second book, The Special Recipe for Making Babies, was a finalist in 2022’s Charlotte Lit/Lit South Award for Nonfiction. Kara’s work has been published in The Scarlet Leaf Review, Imperfect Life Magazine, Ripped Jeans and Bifocals, and Just BE Parenting. Recently, an excerpt from The Significance of Curly Hair was published in Stigma Fighters, a magazine supporting people battling mental illness. Kara has also been interviewed as part of Christine Waltermyer’s Clean Living Series. She is a member of the Creative-Writing-Workshop as well as the National Writers Union and resides in the North Georgia Mountains with her wife, Kim, and daughter, Senia Mae. She just completed her first fiction work: The Waiting is the Hardest Part. Kara can usually be found at home in the kitchen and enjoys sipping wine while hanging her feet off the dock.
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