Acclaimed Short Story Writer Karen Russell To Give Reading at Bard College on December 1
Karen Russell’s first collection of short stories, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, was named a Best Book of 2006 by the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times; in 2007 she was featured in the New Yorker’s Debut Fiction Issue and Granta’s Best of the Young American Novelists. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories 2007, ed. Stephen King, and 2008, ed. Salman Rushdie, and in Bard's literary journal, Conjunctions. A native of Miami, she now lives in New York City where she is working on another story collection and a novel about a family of alligator wrestlers, Swamplandia!
For more information about the reading, call 845-758-1539.
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