Contributors

Karen Russell

Contributor History

From Children’s Reminiscences of the Westward Migration, Conjunctions:45
ZZ’s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers, Online 08-01-2006
Dowsing for Shadows, Conjunctions:52
From Children’s Reminiscences of the Westward Migration, Conjunctions:45 (mp3, 00:04:38)
The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis, Conjunctions:55
The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis, Conjunctions:55 (mp3, 00:16:03)
A Family Restaurant, Conjunctions:57
Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Multimedia 08-20-2013 (mp3, 00:31:33)
The Cloud Lake Unicorn, Conjunctions:76

Biography

The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Karen Russell has written books
including Sleep Donation (Vintage, 2020), Orange World (Knopf, 2019), and
Swamplandia! (2011). One of her earliest fiction publications was in
Conjunctions:45, Secret Lives of Children (2005).

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In Print

Conjunctions:83

Revenants, The Ghost Issue

Fall 2024
Coedited by Joyce Carol Oates and Bradford Morrow

Online

Contributor Ghost Stories

by Charlotte Tierney, Jeffrey Ford, Katherine Cart, Timothy J. Jarvis, Patricia Smith, Ryan Habermeyer, Reggie Oliver, Kathryn Davis, James Morrow, Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones, Erin MacNair, Valerie Martin

December 4, 2024

I was educated in an old Sisters of Mercy convent school, where rumors of ghost nuns were ten a penny and were never especially convincing. However, when I was fourteen, I was in a math class and the teacher walked past me to the back of the room—I heard the movement of her long skirts and felt the displacement of air. A moment later, I put up my hand and looked behind me for help, but the teacher was still sitting ahead of me at her desk in front of the class.

A Polyphonic Portfolio of Language-Centric Writing

by Rae Armantrout, Diane Williams, Brenda Hillman, Colin Channer, Kathryn Davis, Nathaniel Mackey

November 27, 2024

Rae Armantrout EXPRESSION Give me your spurt of verbs, [...]

Fredo and the Rain Club

by Jonathan Carroll

November 20, 2024

As a big surprise for her birthday, I gave in and bought the dog she’d been wanting for a long time. A frisky little caramel-colored dachshund she immediately named Fredo after the weak Corleone brother in The Godfather, her favorite movie. I thought it an odd name but it was her choice and her dog.