Author Karen Russell appears April 15 in Louise White Visiting Writers Series

Karen Russell will

Karen Russell, writer of the story collection, “St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, will read from her works on April 15 at 7 p.m. in 202 McEwen Hall. Her visit is sponsored by the Mary Louise White Visiting Writers Series in the English Department.  After the event, she will take questions and then sign her book. 

Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase a copy of the collection and talk with her. This event is free and open to the public.

Russell, the Columbia Master’s in Fine Arts program graduate is the 2005 recipient of the Transatlantic Review/Henfield Foundation Award. Her work has recently appeared in Conjunctions, Granta, Zoetrope, the Oxford American, the New Yorker's debut fiction issue, Best American Short Stories in 2007 and 2008, and Granta's list of the Best Young American Novelists. New York Magazine has place Russell in their list of the 25 people to watch under the age of 26. She was born and raised in Miami but now lives in Washington Heights where she teaches writing at Columbia.

Each semester, SUNY Fredonia’s English Department hosts two or three published authors through the Mary Louise White Visiting Writers Series. Previous writers in the series have included John McNally, Steve Almond, Oliver de la Paz, Jeffrey McDaniel, Patrick Rosal, Matthea Harvey, Edwige Danticat, and Brian Turner.