Karen Hitchcock is an Australian author and medical doctor who published her first book of short stories in 2009. She has published in both medical^[1] and literary journals, including a publication in the "Best Australian Short Stories" and "Best Australian Essays" anthologies.^[2]

Her first book Little White Slips (Picador, 2009) was well received in the Australian media^[3] and won the 2010 Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, was shortlisted in the 2010 NSW Premiers Literary Award and the Kibble/Dobie award for women writers.

Karen writes a regular column about medicine for The Monthly, and currently works as a physician in a large city hospital in Melbourne.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2017)

• Hitchcock, Karen (4 February 2020), The Medicine: A doctor's notes, Black Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd (published 2020), ISBN 978-1-76064-193-1

• Hitchcock, Karen (2009). Little white slips. Sydney: Picador Australia.

• Hitchcock, Karen (August 2014). "Crazy pills : our obsession with vitamins is getting out of hand". The Medicine. The Monthly. 103: 19.^[4]
• Hitchcock, Karen (14 March 2015), "Dear Life: On caring for the elderly", Quarterly Essay, Quarterly Essay 57, Black Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Media Pty Ltd (published 2015), ISBN 978-1-86395-716-8, ISSN 1832-0953

• interview with Richard Fidler ABC Radio National from the Sydney Writer's Festival
• Karen Hitchcock: Little White Slips interview on Radio National's Life Matters

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