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Karen Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling 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. Her new novel Booth will publish in March 2022.

She is the co-founder of the Otherwise Award and the current president of the Clarion Foundation . Fowler and her husband, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren, live in Santa Cruz, California. Fowler also supports a chimp named Caesar who lives at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone.

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Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler

Books from Karen Joy Fowler

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Booth

Sarah Canary

The Jane Austen Book Club

Wit's End

The Great Silence

Sister Noon

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology

Wicked Wonders

The Sweetheart Season

The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet

Black Glass

The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 6

The Secret History of Science Fiction

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection

Women of Wonder, the Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s

The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women

Year's Best Weird Fiction; Volume 2