Karen Palmer

Karen Palmer is the author of a memoir forthcoming from Algonquin Books, She’s Under Here, and the novels All Saints and Border Dogs. She's received a Pushcart Prize, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Colorado Council on the Arts, and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and VCCA. Her essay, “The Reader Is the Protagonist,” was selected by Leslie Jamison for inclusion in Best American Essays 2017. More recently, "Birds of Paradise," received the Virginia Quarterly's Emily Clark Balch Prize for Fiction. Other writing has appeared in The Rumpus, The Kenyon Review, The Denver Post, Five Points, Arts & Letters, and Kalliope. Karen lives and works in Los Angeles and has taught at Lighthouse for twenty years.