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name: Karen  Tucker
about: Karen Tucker is the author of the novel BEWILDERNESS (Catapult 2021), which was longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, shortlisted for the Crook's Corner Book Prize, and selected as an Indie Next Pick by the American Booksellers Association. Her short fiction can be found in The Yale Review, Boulevard, Epoch, Tin House, The Missouri Review, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Tucker's honors include an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant for Emerging Writers, the George M. Harper Award for Creative Writing, the Jerome Stern Series Spotlight Award in fiction, and a PEO Scholar Award. Born and raised in North Carolina, she teaches fiction and creative nonfiction at UNC Chapel Hill. Karen Tucker is the author of the novel BEWILDERNESS (Catapult 2021), which was longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, shortlisted for the Crook's Corner Book Prize, and selected as an Indie Next Pick by the American Booksellers Association. Her short fiction can be found in The Yale Review, Boulevard, Epoch, Tin House, The Missouri Review, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Tucker's honors include an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant for Emerging Writers, the George M. Harper Award for Creative Writing, the Jerome Stern Series Spotlight Award in fiction, and a PEO Scholar Award. Born and raised in North Carolina, she teaches fiction and creative nonfiction at UNC Chapel Hill. ...more