THE ANTIDOTE with KAREN RUSSELL

Karen Russell is the author of five books of fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She is a MacArthur Fellow, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She has received two National Magazine Awards for Fiction, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Bottari Lattes Grinzane prize, Bard College’s Mary McCarthy Award, and was selected for the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honor and The New Yorker‘s “20 under 40” list (she is now decisively over 40). She has taught literature and creative writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the University of California-Irvine, Williams College, Columbia University, and Bryn Mawr College, and was the Endowed Chair of Texas State University’s MFA program. She serves on the board of Street Books, a mobile-library for people living outdoors. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, she now lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, son, and daughter. Her latest novel is The Antidote.