Karin Tramm is a retired early childhood educator, an award-winning writer, and an international photographer. For 16 years she made her home in Bolzano Vicentino, Italy, with husband, Gene, a retired Navy Commander and high school physics teacher. While in Italy they served as teachers to American military connected students on Caserma Ederle, an army base in Vicenza.
Karin’s favorite pastime is traveling and she has a long list of destinations she looks forward to visiting. She is an avid reader and hosted a traveling book club while residing in Vicenza. She looks forward to many new travel/book pairings in the future.
Karin is an internationally featured photographer. Her work has been displayed in shows, newspapers, and magazines. Her photography has been presented to the Icelandic Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to the White House.
Karin is from Palmetto, Florida and graduated from Palmetto High School. She attended Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tennessee, completing a degree in Elementary Education. She attended graduate school at Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University, earning a Master’s degree in Early Childhood Education. She went on to earn a second Master’s degree in Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma.
Karin began her overseas teaching career in 1983 on the beautiful island of Guam. In 1986 she joined the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) now Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), which took her to Kalayaan Elementary School at Subic Bay Naval Station in the Philippines. There she met her future husband, Gene, a naval meteorologist. She transferred to Bamberg, Germany to teach at Strullendorf Elementary School and then to Naples, Italy to teach at Naples Elementary School.
Relocating to Monterey, California, Gene attended the Naval Post Graduate School and Karin taught Pre-K. Their sons, Ian and Will, were both born during that tour of duty. The Tramms transferred to Naval Air Station Keflavik, Iceland, and then to Virginia Beach. From there they rotated back overseas to Rota Spain, where Karin re-entered DoDEA to continue her teaching career. Upon Gene’s retirement from the Navy in 2006, they moved to Vicenza, Italy, where they lived and worked for 16 years. The Tramms both retired from DoDEA in 2022 and now reside in Florida.
In June 2022, Karin was presented with the Army Achievement Medal for Civilian Service.
Karin is a member of the American Overseas Schools Historical Society, the Military Writer’s Society of America, Story Circle Network, and the Florida Writer’s Association.
