Author Biography
Karen E. Bender is the author of a novel, Like Normal People. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker,Granta,Zoetrope,Ploughshares,Story,Harvard Review,The Iowa Review, and other magazines. Her stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories,Best American Mystery Stories,New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, and have won two Pushcart prizes. She has won grants from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the NEA. She is also co-editor of the anthology Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, novelist Robert Anthony Siegel, and their two children, and teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
