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Karen Miranda Augustine is an artist, writer and experimental videomaker.

Her works have exhibited in Canada, the United States, the Caribbean and UK. Recently, she represented Canada at the 2nd Ghetto Biennale 2011 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She has been published and cited in several books and publications, including The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts (Cleis Press), The Art of Reflection: Women Artists’ Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century (Columbia University Press), Hoodoo & Conjure Quarterly, and Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts (Arsenal Pulp Press).

Formerly, she was the founding editor of At the Crossroads: A Journal for Women Artists of African Descent (1992–97), editor of the now defunct MIX: independent art & culture magazine, beloved CKLN 88.1 FM radio host of BASS: Black Afrikan Sistuhs of Soul (1992–2003), and a poet who had opened for Philadephia recording artist Ursula Rucker, writer Dionne Brand, and dub poet Lillian Allen. 

In 2004, she recorded "Sapphire" for the jazz/poetry compilation The New World Reveal-a-Solution (Urbanicity Recordings), produced by Chicago DJ Shannon Harris. Three years later, her piece Miranda and Child (RaRa Rah) was awarded third place at the CRUX juried exhibition in Norfolk, Virginia. Since 2008, she has been publishing POSSESSION: All that is sacred in contemporary art — an artist-driven e-zine where pop culture, spirituality and social issues intermingle.

Born in Toronto, and raised in Scarborough public housing, Karen Miranda's creative projects interconnect spirituality, class, sexual and countercultural issues. She holds a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from York University.

Ms. Augustine is of Dominican and Kalinago Indian descent.