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Karen E. Bender grew up in Los Angeles and currently lives in New York with her husband and son. Her short stories have appeared in magazines including The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, Story, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review and others. Her fiction has been anthologized in the Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize series and has been read as part of the "Selected Short" series at Symphony Space in New York. In 1997, she received the Rona Jaffe Writer's award. Bender has taught fiction writing at the Writer's Voice program in New York, as well as the MFA programs at Antioch Los Angeles and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She will use her NEA grant to work on a story collection titled, "Anything for Money."

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Bibliography

Standalone Fiction

Like Normal People

A Town of Empty Rooms

Refund

Refund


Anything for Money

Anything for Money

Short story

The New Order

The Words of Dr. L

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Choice

Choice

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