The author of Swamplandia! and St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves reads from her work at Bard College, April 8, 2013.
The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Karen Russell has written books including Sleep Donation (Vintage, 2020), Orange World (Knopf, 2019), and Swamplandia! (2011). One of her earliest fiction publications was in Conjunctions:45, Secret Lives of Children (2005).