Karen Russell

KAREN RUSSELL is the author of Swamplandia!, a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and two collections of short stories, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a New York Timesbestseller, and St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. She is the recipient of a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, and she was named one of the New Yorker's "20 Under 40," The National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35," and Granta's "Best of Young American Novelists." She lives in New York City.