Karen Russell is an American novelist and short story writer
Education
Russell, after graduation from Coral Gables Senior High School in Miami in 1999, received a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Northwestern University in 2003 and graduated from the Master of Fine Arts program at Columbia University in 2006.
Career
She was also the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" in 2013. Her stories have been featured in The Best American, Conjunctions, Granta, The New Yorker, Oxford American, and Zoetrope. She was named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" young writer honoree at a November 2009 ceremony for her first book of short stories, Saint Her second book and first novel, Swamplandia!, about a shabby amusement park set in the Everglades, was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011.
She is the recipient of the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, for Spring 2012.
She is currently a visiting writer at the Iowa Writers" Workshop. In 2012, Swamplandia! was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
A collection of short stories by Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, was published in February 2013. In Fall 2013, Russell was a distinguished guest teacher of creative writing in the Master of Fine Arts program at Rutgers-Camden.
Haunting Olivia ZZ"s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers by Karen Russell The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis.