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Karen E. Bender

Karen E. Bender
Karen E. Bender is the author of most recently, The New Order: Stories and Refund, a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, short-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and long-listed for the Story Prize. She’s also the author of the novels Like Normal People and A Town of Empty Rooms. She has won grants from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the NEA. She lives in Virginia with her husband, author Robert Anthony Siegel, and their two children.


If You Have These Traits You Might Be a Writer

Karen E. Bender Tries to Answer a Very Difficult Question
November 8, 2018  By Karen E. Bender
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NBA-Finalist Karen E. Bender’s Favorite Short Stories

All-Time Greats and Unexpected Gems from a Master of the Form
November 18, 2015  By Karen E. Bender
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