Karen Russell is the author of six books of fiction,
including the NYT bestsellers Vampires in the Lemon
Grove and Swamplandia!, one of the NYT’s
ten best books of the year and a finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize. She is the grateful recipient of a
MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the
NYPL’s Young Lions Award, the Bard Fiction Prize, the
National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” award, and was
selected for Granta’s Best Young American
Novelists and The New Yorker’s “20 under 40”
list (She is now decisively over 40). She’s the
recipient of two National Magazine Awards for Fiction,
the Shirley Jackson Award, the 2023 Bottari Lattes
Grinzane prize, and the 2024 Mary McCarthy Award, among
other honors. 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. Born and raised in Miami, FL, she
lives in Portland, OR with her husband, son, and
daughter. For more information,
visit karenrussellauthor.com.