Karen Russell
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Karen Russell (born July 10, 1981) is an American novelist and short story writer.
Swamplandia!, her debut novel, was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
In 2013, she was also the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant."
In 2009, the National Book Foundation named her a 5 under 35 honoree.
Early life
Russell earned a Bachelor of Spanish from Northwestern University in 1999 after graduating from Coral Gables Senior High School in Miami, Florida. She graduated from Columbia University's MFA program in 2006. As of 2019, a Miami native, lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, editor Tony Perez, and two children. Kent Russell, her brother, is also a writer.
Career and awards
Russell's stories have been published in The Best American Short Stories, Conjunctions, Granta, The New Yorker, Oxford American, and Zoetrope.
Russell received the Bard Fiction Prize in 2011 for her first short story collection, "5 Under 35," which she received at the National Book Foundation in November 2009.
Russell's second book and debut, Swamplandia!, about an alligator wrestlers and their shabby amusement park in the Everglades was long-listed for the 2011 Orange Prize. The book was also included in The New York Times' "Best Books of 2011" list, and it was also recognized for the 2012 Young Lions Fiction Award by the New York Public Library.Swamplandia!
I was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; however, none of the three finalists received enough votes; no prize was given.Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Russell's second collection of short stories, was published by Vintage Contemporaries in February 2013. Orange World and Other Stories, her third short story collection, was published in May 2019.
The Hox River Window, a short story published in Zoetrope: All-Story, is one of the 2012 National Magazine Award for fiction. She is the recipient of the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize and was given a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin in Spring 2012. The Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette of 2012. Russell was named "Genius Grant" by the MacArthur Foundation in 2013.
Russell spent time at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2010. She later worked at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, as an artist in residence. Russell was a Distinguished guest instructor of creative writing in Rutgers University-Camden's MFA program in Fall 2013.
Russell has been the Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University's MFA program since 2017.
Career and awards
Russell's stories have been featured in The Best American Short Stories, Conjunctions, Granta, The New Yorker, Oxford American, and Zoetrope.
She 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.
Russell's second book and first novel, Swamplandia!, about a family of alligator wrestlers and their shabby amusement park in the Everglades was long-listed for the 2011 Orange Prize. The novel was also included in The New York Times' "10 Best Books of 2011" and won the New York Public Library's 2012 Young Lions Fiction Award. Swamplandia! was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; however, none of the three finalists received enough votes, and no prize was awarded.
Russell's second collection of short stories, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, was published by Vintage Contemporaries in February 2013. Her third short story collection, Orange World and Other Stories, was released in May 2019.
Her short story "The Hox River Window," published in Zoetrope: All-Story, won the 2012 National Magazine Award for fiction. She 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. "Reeling for the Empire" won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette of 2012. In 2013, Russell received a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant."
In 2010 Russell spent time as a visiting writer at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She later served as an artist in residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY. In Fall 2013, Russell was a distinguished guest teacher of creative writing in the MFA program at Rutgers University-Camden.
Russell has been the Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University’s MFA program since 2017.