Karen Russell is the author of six books of fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. Swamplandia! was one of the New York Times’ Top Ten Books and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the recipient of the 2024 Mary McCarthy Award, the 2023 Bottari Lattes Grinzanes Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and two National Magazine Awards for Fiction. She was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists and selected for the New Yorker’s 20 under 40 list. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, she now lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, son, and daughter.
