Karen Russell, author portrait
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Karen Russell

KAREN RUSSELL is the author of six works of fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has received two National Magazine Awards for Fiction, the Shirley Jackson Award, the 2023 Bottari Lattes Grinzane prize, the 2024 Mary McCarthy Award, and was selected for the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" prize and The New Yorker's "20 under 40" list (She is now decisively over 40). She has taught literature and creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the University of California-Irvine, Williams College, Columbia University, and Bryn Mawr College, and was the Endowed Chair of Texas State’s MFA program. She serves on the board of Street Books, a mobile-library for people living outdoors. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, she now lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, son, and daughter.
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Wed Apr 02 | 07:00 PM
PRAIRIE LIGHTS BOOKS
15 S DUBUQUE ST
IOWA CITY, IA 52240-3950
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Thu Apr 03 | 06:00 PM
THE BOOKWORM
2501 S 90TH ST
OMAHA, NE 68124-2012
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Fri Apr 04 | 07:00 PM
NATIONAL WILLA CATHER CENTER
413 N WEBSTER ST
RED CLOUD, NE 68970-2466
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Thu Apr 10 | 07:00 PM
Los Angeles Central Library
630 W. Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Google Map

Sun Apr 13 | 07:00 PM
First Light Books
4300 Speedway Unit 104
Austin, TX 78751
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Mon Apr 14 | 07:30 PM
Alley Theatre
615 Texas Avenue
Houston, TX 77002
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1640 South Lindbergh Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63131
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Sat May 24 | 01:00 PM
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606 Sixth St.
Crested Butte, CO 81224
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ANNIE BLOOM'S BOOKS
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