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Author Biography

• Karen Brown, University of South Florida

  Karen Brown was born in Connecticut. Her first collection of short stories, Pins and Needles, was the recipient of The Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction and published by the University of Massachusetts Press. Her stories have been chosen twice for inclusion in The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, appeared in Best American Short Stories 2008, and in literary journals that include Epoch, The Georgia Review, American Short Fiction, New Ohio Review, Freight Stories, TriQuarterly and Five Points, among others. She studied creative writing at Cornell University, and received her Ph.D. in English with a concentration in Literature from the University of South Florida, in Tampa, where she currently teaches. Her newest story collection, Leaf House, won the 2011 Prairie Schooner Book Prize, and is forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press.