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
Fiction | The Online Edition
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 | The Online Edition
St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Karen Russell
‘Sister Josephine tasted like sweat and freckles. She smelled easy to kill.’
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.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 122
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.’