Author of "Refund" Karen Bender

Thursday, February 25, 8:15 pm

Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library

 

Bender, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University for the 2015-16 academic year, is the author of the story collection Refund, published by Counterpoint Press in 2015. It was on the shortlist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize and was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Her other books include A Town of Empty Rooms (Counterpoint Press) and Like Normal People (Houghton Mifflin), also a Los Angeles Times bestseller as well as a Washington Post Best Book of the Year and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.

Bender’s short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Story, Narrative, The Harvard Review, Guernica, and The Iowa Review. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, and New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, and have won two Pushcart Prizes. She is also the coeditor of the nonfiction anthology Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion.

Funding provided by the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Series.

Q&A with the Author, Friday, February 26, 11 am, Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library