| Karen Russell | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 10, 1981 Miami, Florida |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University, Columbia University |
Karen Russell (born July 10, 1981, Miami, Florida) is an American author.
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Russell received a B.A. from Northwestern University in 2003, and graduated from the MFA program at Columbia University in 2006.
She was Margaret Bundy Scott Visiting Professor of English at Williams College.[1]
Her stories have been featured in The Best American Short Stories, Conjunctions, Granta, The New Yorker, Oxford American, and Zoetrope.[2]
She was named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" young writer honoree at a November 2009 ceremony,[3] for her first book of short stories, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. Her second book, first novel Swamplandia!, about a shabby amusement park set in the Everglades, was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011.[4] It was also included in the New York Times' "10 Best Books of 2011."[5]
She is the recipient of the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, for Spring 2012.[6]
She won the Bard Fiction Prize in 2011 for her book St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.[7] She is currently writer-in-residence at Bard College.[8]