Karina Dias Pires is a Brazilian-born Australian writer, photographer and creative director. She began her career as a copyrighter in Belo Horizonte in 1995. Since then she has worked for advertising agencies, magazines and as a freelancer in São Paolo and London before landing in Sydney in 2005. In addition to her writing and image making, Karina is also the creative director of House of Six, a textile business creating handwoven homewares. Artists at Home is her first book, and she is both author and photographer.