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.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
Swamplandia! Knopf. 2011.
The Antidote. New York: Random House. 2025
Short fiction Collections
St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. Knopf. 2006.
Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories. Knopf. 2013.
Orange World and Other Stories. Knopf. 2019.
Novellas
Sleep Donation. Vintage Books. 2020.
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