A BRIEF BIO
Formerly the publisher of Savvy Woman magazine and a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, Talia Carner’s heart-wrenching suspense novels, (published by HarperCollins) THE THIRD DAUGHTER, HOTEL MOSCOW, JERUSALEM MAIDEN, CHINA DOLL and PUPPET CHILD, have been hailed for exposing society’s ills. Her historical novel THE BOY WITH THE STAR TATTOO will be released by HarperCollins on January 30th, 2024.
Dozens of Carner’s award-winning essays, articles and short stories have appeared in anthologies, literary reviews and leading websites. She is a committed supporter of global human rights, has spearheaded projects centered on the subjects of female plight. A Toastmasters’ Gold Level speaker, she has participated as a panelist or keynoted over 500 events and over 350 Zoom presentations to civic, religious and cultural organizations.
Talia Carner a board member of HBI, the Jewish women research center at Brandeis university and an honorary board member of several anti-domestic violence, child abuse intervention, and anti-sex-trafficking organizations. In November 2023, Algemeiner Media named Talia Carner as one of the Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life 2023.
She lives in Boca Raton, FL, and Bridgehampton, NY. She is married to Ron Carner, (former president of Maccabi USA) and they have four grown children.
Her addictions include chocolate and social justice.
AN INTRODUCTORY BIO (For events)
“At the heart of Talia Carner lies an activist, a feminist and a humanitarian who gives a voice to those without one.
A proud 7th-generation Sabra, the New-York-based author is a woman unafraid to tackle controversial issues. Her psychological suspense novels bring to the forefront indignities and atrocities long ignored, and include PUPPET CHILD, CHINA DOLL, JERUSALEM MAIDEN, HOTEL MOSCOW, THE THIRD DAUGHTER. and now THE BOY WITH THE STAR TATTOO.
Formerly the publisher of Savvy Woman magazine and a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, Talia Carner is a committed supporter of global human rights.
She is a board member of HBI–the Jewish women research center at Brandeis University. In November 2023, Algemeiner magazine named Talia Carner as one of the Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life 2023.
Her addictions include chocolate and social justice.
Talia is married to Ron Carner, former president of Maccabi USA. They live in New York and Florida and have four grown children.”
A FULL BIO
Before turning to fiction writing, Talia Carner was a marketing manager at Redbook magazine and served as the publisher of Savvy Woman magazine. An adjunct professor of marketing at Long Island University and a marketing consultant to Fortune 500 companies, she was a volunteer counselor and lecturer for the Small Business Administration and a member of United States Information Agency missions to Russia, teaching women entrepreneurial skills. Carner’s activities in women’s organizations led to her participation at the 1995 International Women’s Conference in Beijing, where, while she served on economic panels and taught entrepreneurship, she learned of the atrocities of The Dying Rooms—the Chinese orphanages where the documented death rate was 80%—and about the U.S.’s courts betrayal of molested children (the bases for her novels CHINA DOLL and PUPPET CHILD respectively.) Helping African women to develop a campaign against clitoridectomy, she was exposed to the plight of women in societies that subjected millions of girls to this brutal mutilation. Her education about violence against women continued when she assisted Indian women in a campaign to end the burning of brides over dowry disputes. She also researched the lives of women in religious oppressive societies (which inspired her novel JERUSALEM MAIDEN.) The issue of women’s subjugation is crystallized in Carner’s daring novel, THE THIRD DAUGHTER (HarperCollins, September 2019,) about sex trafficking. Talia Carner’s sixth novel, THE BOY WITH THE STAR TATTOO, a historical fiction set in France, is about to be released on January 30th, 2024 and listed among “most anticipated novels 2024.”
A sought-after keynote lecturer at renowned organizations, Carner speaks on both universal and culture-specific issues facing today’s women across the globe.
In the early 1980s, while at Redbook magazine, the statistically savvy Carner was the first to define the characteristics of then-young female baby-boomers as more educated who were getting married at a later age than women merely a decade older as also career-oriented, and health- and civic-conscious, and astute consumers. While the publisher of Savvy Woman magazine—then one of only three females to head a major American magazine—she was the first to document the demographics of female business owners. Launching her own marketing consulting firm to Fortune 500 companies, Carner commissioned independent research whose results challenged the U.S. government’s definition of entrepreneurship and female participation in the marketplace. As a result, the White House Oversight Committee was established and changed the Office of Labor Statistics’ practice of gathering and analyzing data, especially about husband-wife business ownership that until then was listed as male-owned.
In 1993, on Carner’s second U.S. Information Agency (USIA) mission to Russia, she was caught in the uprising of the parliament against then-president Boris Yeltsin. Her report to the USIA about her escape was the seed of her fiction-writing career. Twenty-two years later, her experiences in Russia come to light in her novel, HOTEL MOSCOW (HarperCollins, 2015.)
Carner’s first published novel, PUPPET CHILD, was listed in BookBrowse.com’s “Top 10 Favorite First Novels 2002” and won her an Outstanding Author Award (BookReviewCafe.com.) The novel launched The Protective Parent Reform Act, a law now passed in several states and under consideration in many others, and has become the platform of two State Senatorial candidates. Her second novel, CHINA DOLL, an Amazon bestseller, was the platform for her 2007 presentation at the U.N. about infanticide in China—the first in U.N. history. Her novel JERUSALEM MAIDEN (HarperCollins, 2011,) depicted a woman’s struggle for self-expression against her society’s religious dictates. It won the Forward National Literature Award in the Historical Fiction category. HOTEL MOSCOW (HarperCollins, June 2015,) winner of USA Book News in the Multi-Cultural category, was an eye-opening portrait of post-communist Russia. Talia Carner’s most acclaimed novel, THE THIRD DAUGHTER, (HarperCollins 2019) was named Finalist (2nd place) in the 2019 National Jewish Book Council Award in the Book Club category. It has become the platform for Ms. Carner to educate audiences about sex trafficking.
In addition to published articles on economic issues and women’s global plights, Carner’s award-winning personal essays have appeared in The New York Times, Chocolate for Women, Cup of Comfort and Chicken Soup anthologies, as well as The Best Jewish Writing 2003. Her short stories have been published in literary magazines such as Midstream, Lynx Eye, River Sedge, Moxie, Lilith, Rosebud, Clackamas Literary Review, Two-Bridges Review, Confrontation, North Atlantic Review, Litro, and Midwest Literary Magazine. An excerpt from JERUSALEM MAIDEN was included in The Best New Writing 2011 as the “Editor’s Choice Award” and was nominated to the prestigious Pushcart Prize.
A 7th generation Sabra born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Ms. Carner served in the Israel Defense Force (IDF.) She received a B.A. degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem in Psychology and Sociology and a Master’s degree (concentration in Economics) from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Talia Carner is a Toastmasters‘ Gold level speaker, and has given over 550 in-person keynote speeches and presentations and over 350 virtual about the social issues behind her novels to civic, educational, charitable and religious organizations.
Talia Carner is an active board member of Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, (HBI) the Jewish women research center at Brandeis University. She is also an honorary board member of several anti-domestic violence and child-abuse-intervention organizations. In November 2023, Algemeiner Media named Talia Carner as one of the Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life 2023.
She and her husband, Ron Carner (former president of Maccabi USA), have four grown children. The couple live in Bridgehampton, Long Island, NY and Boca Raton, FL.
Board Member:
- Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (Jewish women’s research center at Brandeis University)
- National Coalition For Family Justice, and other anti-domestic-violence organizations
Member:
- The Authors Guild
- The International Women’s Writing Guild
- Women’s National Book Association
- Two-Bridges Writers’ Group
- Toastmasters
