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.^[1]

She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Iowa.

She has taught at Hollins University,^[2] University of Iowa, Tunghai University, Warren Wilson College, Chatham University, and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Her work has appeared in Granta,^[3] Narrative Magazine,^[4] Ploughshares,^[5] Harvard Review,^[6] and Guernica.^[7]

• The New Order: Stories: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2018. ISBN 9781640090996 ^[8]
• Refund, Counterpoint, 2015. ISBN 9781619026230^[9]
• A town of empty rooms Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, 2013.ISBN 9781619022744
• Like normal people London : Picador, 2001. ISBN 9780330373807

1. ↑ "Karen E. Bender". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
2. ↑ "Karen Bender | Creative Writing Professor | Hollins University". Hollins. Archived from the original on 2020-06-22. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
3. ↑ "Karen E. Bender". Granta. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
4. ↑ Bender, Karen E. (2013-01-10). "Karen E. Bender". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
5. ↑ "Karen E. Bender | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
6. ↑ "Karen E. Bender – Harvard Review". Retrieved 2020-06-18.
7. ↑ "Stories by karen-e-bender on Guernica". Guernica. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
8. ↑ Staff, Ben Steelman StarNews. "Karen Bender's 'New Order' hits close to the headlines". Wilmington Star News. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
9. ↑ Macy, Caitlin (2015-03-20). "Karen E. Bender's 'Refund'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-18.

• http://karenebender.com/
• WONDERFUL STRANGENESS: AN INTERVIEW WITH KAREN E. BENDER The Fourth River, December 8, 2018

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