age ~57
from Johnstown, PA
In this story from her collection REFUND, which won Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award was a finalist for the National Book Award, Karen E. Bender explores the intersection of extreme wealth, love, and familial duty. It's a familiar story made unrecognizable by Bender's refreshing aplomb...
Author
Karen E. Bender
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
37
Publisher
Electric Literature
ISBN #
13
We think about it every day, sometimes every hour: Money. Who has it. Who doesn’t. How you get it. How you don’t.Bender uses this very powerful force to pull together a unified collection of stories that deeply explore the ways in which money and the subsequent estimation of value affect the lives o...
Author
Karen E. Bender
Binding
Paperback
Pages
256
Publisher
Counterpoint
ISBN #
1619026236
EAN Code
9781619026230
ISBN #
11
27 Views of Wilmington: The Port City in Prose & Poetry showcases the literary life of one of North Carolina’s most popular cities. Twenty-seven Wilmington authors and poets contribute their “views” to this local anthology, capturing the city, both present and past. They offer a broad and varied pic...
Author
John Jeremiah Sullivan, Jason Mott, Wendy Brenner, Philip Gerard, Emily Smith, Jim Leutze, Nan Graham, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, Karen Bender
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
224
ISBN #
6
CHOICE explores the one of the most polarizing political issues of our time reproductive choice. CHOICE attempts to raise the discourse on reproductive choice, which often devolves to clichÃs and name-calling, by posing the question--what is it like to make any sort of reproductive choice? What is i...
Author
Karen E. Bender
Binding
Paperback
Pages
349
Publisher
MacAdam/Cage
ISBN #
1596920629
EAN Code
9781596920620
ISBN #
5
A Los Angeles Times bestseller and one of the Washington Post's best books of the year, LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE charts the lives of "three richly textured characters whose irreducible idiosyncrasies, griefs, longings, and loves will surely expand our sense of what it means to be like normal people" (Chic...
Author
Karen Bender
Binding
Paperback
Pages
288
Publisher
Mariner Books
ISBN #
0618126929
EAN Code
9780618126927
ISBN #
2
We think about it every day, sometimes every hour: Money. Who has it. Who doesn’t. How you get it. How you don’t.In Refund, Bender creates an award-winning collection of stories that deeply explore the ways in which money and the estimation of value affect the lives of her characters. The stories in...
Author
Karen E. Bender
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
256
Publisher
Counterpoint
ISBN #
1619024551
EAN Code
9781619024557
ISBN #
1
The Spring 2005 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Martin Espada. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.Guest-edited by noted poet Martin Espada, the Spring 2005 issue of Plou...
Author
Pablo Neruda, Karen E. Bender, Robert Creeley, Adrienne Rich, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sharon Olds, Rafael Campo, Donald Hall, Sam Hamill
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
264
Publisher
Ploughshares / Emerson College
ISBN #
8
The Fall 2007 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Andrea Barrett. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.National Book Award winner Andrea Barrett (Ship Fever, The Voyage of...
Author
Bret Anthony Johnston, Ellen Litman, Karen Shepard, Joan Silber, Christopher Tilghman, Paul Yoon, Jill Gilbreth, Karen E. Bender, Alix Ohlin
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
226
Publisher
Ploughshares / Emerson College
ISBN #
7
Author
Karen L. Bender
ISBN #
0821331159