Author
Karen Russell
Karen Russell is the American novelist behind Swamplandia! (2011, Pulitzer Prize finalist), Vampires in the Lemon Grove (2013), Sleep Donation (2014), Orange World (2019), and The Antidote (2025). Russell teaches at the University of Texas at Austin and is one of the canonical contemporary American literary fantasists of her generation.
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2011-2019
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Orange World
by Karen Russell
Orange World by Karen Russell 2019 review. Eight more fabulist literary fantasy stories. Russell's third story collection.
Swamplandia!
by Karen Russell
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell 2011 review. The Bigtree alligator-wrestling family-park collapses after the matriarch's death. Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
by Karen Russell
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell 2013 review. Eight fabulist literary fantasy stories. Russell's second story collection after Swamplandia.
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Swamplandia! by Karen Russell 2011 review. The Bigtree alligator-wrestling family-park collapses after the matriarch's death. Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell 2013 review. Eight fabulist literary fantasy stories. Russell's second story collection after Swamplandia.
Orange World by Karen Russell 2019 review. Eight more fabulist literary fantasy stories. Russell's third story collection.