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Karen Russell

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Born
in Miami, The United States
Genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Humor

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Denis Johnson, George Saunders, Kelly Link, Scott Snyder, Kevin Brockm ...more

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September 2011


Karen Russell graduated from Columbia University's MFA program in 2006. Her stories have been featured in The Best American Short Stories, Conjunctions, Granta, The New Yorker, Oxford American, and Zoetrope. Her first book of short stories, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, was published in September 2006. In November 2009, she was named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree. In June 2010, she was named a New Yorker "20 Under 40" honoree. Her first novel, Swamplandia!, was published in February 2011.

She lives in Washington Heights, New York. ...more

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Average rating: 3.52 · 129,176 ratings · 19,203 reviews · 56 distinct works • Similar authors
Swamplandia!
3.28 avg rating — 59,758 ratings — published 2011 — 47 editions
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Vampires in the Lemon Grove...
3.68 avg rating — 23,931 ratings — published 2013
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St. Lucy's Home for Girls R...
3.79 avg rating — 13,081 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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The Antidote
3.92 avg rating — 8,690 ratings — published 2025 — 9 editions
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Sleep Donation
3.32 avg rating — 8,092 ratings — published 2014 — 18 editions
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Orange World and Other Stories
3.98 avg rating — 6,642 ratings — published 2019 — 13 editions
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Stag
3.31 avg rating — 2,058 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions
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Haunting Olivia
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Reeling for the Empire
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“The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.”
― Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
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“My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.”
― Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
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“Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart.”
― Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
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