Karen H Bender

Like Normal People

Like Normal People

Like Normal People

Developing the Regulatory Environment for Competitive Agricultural Markets

Anything for Money (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading)

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...

Refund: Stories

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...

27 Views of Wilmington: The Port City in Prose & Poetry

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...

Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, & Abortion

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...

Like Normal People

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...

Refund: Stories

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...

Ploughshares Spring 2005 Guest-Edited by Martin Espada

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...

Ploughshares Fall 2007 Guest-Edited by Andrea Barrett

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...