Karen E. Bender

Karen E. Bender is an American novelist. She won a 1997 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award.
Life.
She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Iowa.
She has taught at Hollins University, University of Iowa, Tunghai University, Warren Wilson College, Chatham University, and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
Her work has appeared in "Granta", "Narrative Magazine", "Ploughshares", "Harvard Review", and "Guernica".