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Karen Russell (born July 10, 1981, Miami, Florida) is an American author. Her stories have been featured in The Best American Short Stories, Conjunctions, Granta, The New Yorker, Oxford American, and Zoetrope. Her first book of short stories, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves was published in September 2006, for which she was named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" young writer honoree at a November 2009 ceremony.
Her second book, Swamplandia!, a novel about a shabby amusement park set in the Everglades, was published in February 2011. It was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011.
As an undergraduate, Karen attended Northwestern University, where she earned her B.A. in 2003. She is a 2006 graduate of the Columbia University MFA program.
She has taught fiction writing at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
References
- "Karen Russell" (HTML). August 2004. Retrieved 2006-11-24.
- http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35.html
- Retrieved 22 March 2011.