Karen E. Bender is the author of four works of fiction. Her story collection Refund was a Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction in 2015, Shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize and Longlisted for the Story prize. Her collection The New Order was Longlisted for the Story prize. Her novels are Like Normal People and A Town of Empty Rooms. Her stories have appeared in magazines including The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Story, Guernica, and others, and have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the South: The Year's best, and won three Pushcart prizes. She has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rona Jaffe Foundation., and has taught creative writing at universities including the University of Iowa,, Hollins University, and Warren Wilson College. She currently is core faculty for the MFA program at Alma College and is a Visiting Writer at the MFA at SUNY Stony Brook.
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