1. Karen Russell was born on July 10,1981 and is an American novelist and short story writer.
10 Facts About Karen Russell
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Karen Russell was the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" in 2013.
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Karen Russell graduated from the MFA program at Columbia University in 2006.
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Karen Russell's stories have been featured in The Best American Short Stories, Conjunctions, Granta, The New Yorker, Oxford American, and Zoetrope.
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Karen Russell was named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" young writer honoree at the November 2009 ceremony for her first short story collection, St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, for which Russell won the Bard Fiction Prize in 2011.
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Karen Russell is the recipient of the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize and was awarded a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin for Spring 2012.
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In 2010 Karen Russell spent time as a visiting writer at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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Karen Russell later served as an artist in residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY.
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In Fall 2013, Karen Russell was a distinguished guest teacher of creative writing in the MFA program at Rutgers University-Camden.
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Karen Russell held the Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University's MFA program from 2017 through 2020.