The penultimate member of this fall’s Visiting Writers Series is Karen Russell, author of two collections of short stories and the Pulitzer-nominated, Orange Prize-long-listed novel Swamplandia! On Monday, November 4, Russell will be reading in the Krannert room of Clowes Hall at 7:30 PM. Currently serving as Bard College’s writer-in-residence, Russell has been published in Best American Short Stories, Conjunctions, Granta, The New Yorker, and Zoetrope. Not to mention her debut short story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves won the Bard Fiction Prize in 2011. Not to mention that, just recently, Russell became one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur grant. Continue reading →

The penultimate member of this fall’s Visiting Writers Series is Karen Russell, author of two collections of short stories and the Pulitzer-nominated, Orange Prize-long-listed novel Swamplandia! On Monday, November 4, Russell will be reading in the Krannert room of Clowes Hall at 7:30 PM. Currently serving as Bard College’s writer-in-residence, Russell has been published in Best American Short Stories, Conjunctions, Granta, The New Yorker, and Zoetrope. Not to mention her debut short story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves won the Bard Fiction Prize in 2011. Not to mention that, just recently, Russell became one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur grant. Continue reading →