# Karen Heuler

Karen Heuler (born June 13, 1949) is an American writer of literary, dark fantasy, science fiction, and horror short stories, and novels.

## Biography

Heuler was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended Long Island University, where she received her Master's degree in English in 1976. She worked in various jobs including publishing, crosswords, art books, Wall Street and retail.
She teaches occasionally for New York University School of Professional Studies, and other academic institutions. She has had over 100 stories published in literary and speculative journals and anthologies, as well as four novels, three collections, and one novella. Her work focuses on the perception of reality and often features doubles and doppelgangers from both a literary and speculative point of view. She frequently uses literary works as a reference point for speculative stories, as an indicator of the continuity of topics across genres.

## Work
### Books

* In Search of Lost Time, Aqueduct Press, 2017
* Other Places, Aqueduct Press, Oct. 2016
* Glorious Plague, Permuted Press, April 2014
* The Inner City, ChiZine Publications, Canada, 2013
* The Made-up Man, Livingston Press, Livingston, Alabama, May 2011
* Journey to Bom Goody, Livingston Press, Livingston, Alabama, May 2005
* The Soft Room, Livingston Press, Livingston, Alabama, May 2004
* The Other Door, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri, October 1995

### Anthologies

* Tiny Crimes, Black Balloon Publishing, 2019
* Killing It Softly 2, Digital Fiction Publishing, Fall 2017
* Invaders, Tachyon Publications, 2016
* Dreams from the Witch House, Dark Regions Press, 2016
* The Bestiary, Cheeky Frawg Books, 2016
* Mosaics, DayDreams Dandelions Press, 2016
* Black Apples, Belladonna Publishing, 2014
* Not Just Rockets and Robots: Daily Science Fiction Year One, 2012
* Year’s Best SF 17, Harper Voyager, 2012
* Realms 2: the Second Year of Clarkesworld, Prime Books, 2010
* Best of the Web, Dzanc Books, 2009
* The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, Prime Books, 2009
* Phantom, Prime Books, 2009
* Bandersnatch, Prime Books, 2007
* ParaSpheres, Omnidawn Publishing, 2006
* Snakes: An Anthology, M. Evans and Co, 2003
* Prize Stories The Best of 1998: The O. Henry Awards, Anchor Books, 1998

### Short stories

* Among the Missing, Saturday Evening Post online, May 11, 2018
* Heading for the Border, Shoreline of Infinity, March 2018
* The Dream Catcher, TJ Eckleburg Review, Sept 2017
* Here and There, Conjunctions, Spring 2017
* The Reordering of Tonia Vivian, Aliterate Journal, May 2017
* That Place, Maine Review, Winter 2017
* What Approaches, Digital Fiction Horror, Nov. 2016 (reprint)
* Goodness in All Its Forms, Saturday Evening Post online, Aug. 5, 2016
* The Smallest Possible Ships, SciPhi Journal, June 2016
* After They’ve Gone, Strangelet, June 2016
* The Rising Up, See the Elephant, Issue 2, 2016
* The Very Difficult Job, Tin House Flash Fridays, Jan. 2016
* Egg Island, Clarkesworld, Oct. 2015
* Bright Bright Bedlam, Kenyon Review Online, Aug. 5, 2015
* The Lovely Kisselthwist, Saturday Evening Post Online, March 20, 2015
* The Alien Came Over the Hill, Daily Science Fiction, July 13, 2015
* The Terrible Journey, Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2015
* The Mechanical Nature of Love, BuzzyMag, Dec. 4, 2014
* The Stray Curse, Indiana Review, Summer 2014
* Space Mama, Daily Science Fiction, Oct. 8, 2013
* How to Be a Foreigner, Perihelion, Sept. 12, 2013
* What Approaches, Penumbra magazine, fall 2012
* The Clockworm, Journal of Unlikely Entomology, fall 2012
* Thick Water, Albedo One magazine, Spring 2011
* The Large People, Daily Science Fiction, July 2011
* The Hair, Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2011
* Searching for Penny, American Literary Review, Spring 2011
* Fish Wish, Weird Tales Magazine, Winter 2011
* Elvis in Bloom, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Summer 2011
* Beds, Moon Milk Review, Feb. 2010
* Mice, Vestal Review, Winter 2010
* The Great Spin, Confrontation, winter 2010
* Exile, Fantasy magazine, April 19, 2010 (online)
* The Great Spin, Wet Ink magazine, September 2009
* Silver Watches Everything, StoryQuarterly magazine, Issue 43
* Joey, the Upstairs Boy, Alaska Quarterly Review, 2009
* Oh He Is, Fantasy magazine, May 18, 2009
* The Completely Rechargeable Man, Clarkesworld, Dec. 2008
* Ball Lightning, Oxmag (online), 2008
* The Difficulties of Evolution, Weird Tales, June/July 2008
* The House of Gold, Odyssey magazine, March 2008
* Landscape, with Fish, Weird Tales, Feb. 2008
* The Inner City, Cemetery Dance, Feb. 2008
* Right Ida, The St. Ann's Review, winter 2007/08
* Shady Guy, Shenandoah, winter 2007/08
* Games, Crab Creek Review, Fall 2007
* Talking about Rita, The Pedestal Magazine, May/June 2007 (online)
* Guest Appearance, Crab Orchard Review, Fall 2005
* The Log, Arts & Letters, Fall 2005
* Ooh, North Dakota Quarterly, Summer 2005
* Road Work, Phoebe, vol 33 no. 2, fall 2004
* The Naked Man, Clackamas Review, 2004, vol. 8
* Primo Chemo, Serpentinia, 2002 awards issue (online)
* Cookies, Night Train Magazine, vol. II, Summer 2003
* Fool Radiance, Literary Review, Fall 2002
* Metropolitan Pigeon, The Bear Deluxe, Number 19, Summer/Fall 2002
* Slyboy! Sneakerheart!, Literal Latte, Volume 8 Number 1, Summer 2002
* Ordinary, Confrontation, No. 78/79. Spring/Summer 2002
* Chemo Dreams, Sycamore Review, West Lafayette, IN, Summer 2000
* The Snakes of Central Park, Mid American Review, Bowling Green, OH, Spring/summer 2000
* Satan In All His Glory, Michigan Quarterly Review, Ann Arbor, MI, Spring/summer 2000
* Graced, Confrontation, Brookville, NY, Summer 1999
* The Right Chemistry, New York Stories, Long Island City, NY, Winter/spring 1999
* At the Edge of the River, Alaska Quarterly Review, Anchorage, Alaska, Summer/Fall 1998
* Me and My Enemy, Virginia Quarterly Review, Charlottesville, VA, Autumn 1997, Vol. 73 No. 4
* The Escape Artist, International Quarterly, Tallahassee, FL, 1997, Vol. 3 No. 1
* And the Snake, So Sinuous, Witness, Farmington Hills, MI, Vol. XI, No. 1 1997
* The Hole Story, Beloit Fiction magazine, Beloit, WI, Summer 1995
* Sick Leave, Alaska Quarterly Review, Anchorage, Alaska, Summer/Fall 1995
* Overpowering Joy, Ms. Magazine, New York, NY, March/April 1995
* The Revolt of Everyday Things, Massachusetts Review, Amherst, MA, Summer 1993
* How Lightly He Stepped in the Air, Short Fiction by Women, New York, NY, Issue 4
* Like a Piston, like a Flame, Crosscurrents, Westlake Village, CA, Winter 91/92
* Figaro, Figueroa, The Boston Review, Boston, MA, Jan./Feb. 1991
* Simple Accommodations, New Virginia Review, Richmond, VA, Winter 1990/91
* Ghost Nets, TriQuarterly 77, Evanston, IL, Winter 1989/90
* The Lizard Woman, Kansas Quarterly, Manhattan, KS, Vol. 19, No. 3, Summer 1987
* The Sieve, Clifton Magazine, Cincinnati, OH, Winter 1987
* In A Perfect World, Carolina Quarterly, Chapel Hill, NC, Spring 1986, Vol. 38, No. 3

## Awards and honorable mentions

* Winner, 2010 Literary Prize in Fiction, American Literary Review
* 1998 O. Henry Award
* Finalist, The Shirley Jackson Award, 2009 & 2017
* Finalist, Bellwether Prize for Fiction, 2004
* Second place, Night Train Magazine's 50/50 awards, 2003
* Finalist, 1993 Iowa Short Fiction Awards
* Semifinalist, 1992 Nelson Algren Award