Karen E. Bender

Karen E. Bender  is an American novelist. She won a 1997 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award.

 Life 
She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Iowa.

She has taught at Hollins University, University of Iowa, Tunghai University, Warren Wilson College, Chatham University, and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Her work has appeared in Granta, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and Guernica.
 Works 

 The New Order: Stories: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2018. ISBN 9781640090996 
 Refund, Counterpoint, 2015. ISBN 9781619026230
 A town of empty rooms Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, 2013.ISBN 9781619022744
 Like normal people London : Picador, 2001. ISBN  9780330373807

 References 

 Other websites 

 http://karenebender.com/
 WONDERFUL STRANGENESS: AN INTERVIEW WITH KAREN E. BENDER The Fourth River, December 8, 2018

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