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    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.
    Vampires in the Lemon Grove
    Vampires in the Lemon Grove
    And Other Stories
    Karen Russell
    9780307947475
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Jan 14, 2014
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Swamplandia!
    Swamplandia!
    Karen Russell
    9780307276681
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Jul 26, 2011
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
    St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
    Stories
    Karen Russell
    9780307276674
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 14, 2007
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

    Books

    Vampires in the Lemon Grove
    Vampires in the Lemon Grove
    And Other Stories
    Karen Russell
    9780307947475
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Jan 14, 2014
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Swamplandia!
    Swamplandia!
    Karen Russell
    9780307276681
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Jul 26, 2011
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
    St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
    Stories
    Karen Russell
    9780307276674
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 14, 2007
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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