Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler is the author of six novels and three short story collections. Her 2004 novel, The Jane Austen Book Club, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel, Sister Noon, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel, Sarah Canary, won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian, was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was short-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

She is the co-founder of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the current president of the Clarion Foundation (also known as Clarion San Diego).

Fowler and her husband, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren, live in Santa Cruz, California.

More From Karen Joy Fowler| Personal Website

Books

  • Cursed: An Anthology

    Format:
    Mass Market Paperback
    Released:
    9 Nov 2021

    ALL THE BETTER TO READ YOU WITH

    It’s a prick of blood, the bite of an apple, the evil eye, …

  • Cursed: An Anthology

    Format:
    Paperback
    Released:
    3 Mar 2020

    ALL THE BETTER TO READ YOU WITH

    It’s a prick of blood, the bite of an apple, the evil eye, …