Karen Russell

Karen Russell

KAREN RUSSELL is the author of six works of fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has received two National Magazine Awards for Fiction, the Shirley Jackson Award, the 2023 Bottari Lattes Grinzane prize, the 2024 Mary McCarthy Award, and was selected for the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" prize and The New Yorker's "20 under 40" list (She is now decisively over 40). She has taught literature and creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the University of California-Irvine, Williams College, Columbia University, and Bryn Mawr College, and was the Endowed Chair of Texas State’s MFA program. She serves on the board of Street Books, a mobile-library for people living outdoors. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, she now lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, son, and daughter.

News FridayReads

March 14 2025

#FridayReads: The Antidote by Karen Russell

A gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town.

#FridayReads: The Antidote by Karen Russell

News FridayReads

March 14 2025

Starred Reviews

February 12 2025

Starred Reviews for Susan Morrison, Sanjena Sathian, Will Bardenwerper, Brendan Slocumb, and more!

With starred reviews from publications including Library Journal and AudioFile—your patrons will want to read these much-anticipated books that reviewers are raving about.

Starred Reviews for Susan Morrison, Sanjena Sathian, Will Bardenwerper, Brendan Slocumb, and more!

Starred Reviews

February 12 2025

Starred Reviews

January 22 2025

Starred Reviews for Marcy Dermansky, Ali Smith, David Levering Lewis, John Green, and more!

With starred reviews from publications including Library Journal and AudioFile—your patrons will want to read these much-anticipated books that reviewers are raving about.