KPL – One Author, Karen Russell

Register for free tickets beginning Monday, September 2 at 9am by calling the library at 308-233-3282 or online. Ticket pickup will begin on Monday, September 15 at 9am at the front desk of the library.

The Kearney Public Library Foundation and the library proudly present an evening of conversation and readings with Karen Russell! A book signing will follow the presentation. This is a free, ticketed event.

She is the author of six books of fiction, including "The Antidote," as well as NYT bestsellers "Vampires in the Lemon Grove" and "Swamplandia!," one of the NYT’s ten best books of the year and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She's received both MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, the NYPL’s Young Lions Award, the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” award, and was selected for Granta’s Best Young American Novelists and The New Yorker’s “20 under 40” list (she is now decisively over 40). She’s also won two National Magazine Awards for Fiction, the Shirley Jackson Award, the 2023 Bottari Lattes Grinzane prize, and the 2024 Mary McCarthy Award, among other honors. She taught literature and creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, UC-Irvine, Williams College, Columbia University, and Bryn Mawr College. She serves on the board of Street Books. Born and raised in Miami, FL, she lives in Portland, OR with her husband, son, and daughter.