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Karen Russell

Karen Russell is the author of the story collection St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and the novel Swamplandia!, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and one of the New York Times‘s Top 5 Fiction Books of 2011. Her most recent story collection is Vampires in the Lemon Grove. In 2007 she was named one of Granta‘s Best Young American Novelists.

Karen Russell on Granta.com

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Defining Betrayal

Various Contributors

‘I think of betrayal as a crack in the veneer of humanity, an act that reveals to us, and others, our base animal nature.’

Fiction | Issue 122

Fiction | Issue 122

The New Veterans

Karen Russell

‘Pain unwound itself under her palms‘

In Conversation | Issue 122

In Conversation | Issue 122

Karen Russell | Interview

Karen Russell & Patrick Ryan

‘I think it’s impossible to draw a hard and fast line between reality and fantasy.’

Fiction | Issue 122

Fiction | Issue 122

The Barn at The End of Our Term

Karen Russell

‘Eleven of the stabled horses are, as far as Rutherford can ascertain, former presidents of the United States of America.’

Fiction | Issue 122

Fiction | Issue 122

St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

Karen Russell

‘Sister Josephine tasted like sweat and freckles. She smelled easy to kill.’