Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler is the award-winning author of seven novels and three short story collections. Her recent novel Booth was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her first “science novel,” We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award and was short-listed for the Booker. Her 2004 novel, The Jane Austen Book Club, was a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book, as well as the basis for a 2007 movie. Her 2001 novel, Sister Noon, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and her debut novel, Sarah Canary, was a New York Times Notable Book, won the Commonwealth Medal, and was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize. Fowler’s short story collections Black Glass and What I Didn’t See both won the World Fantasy Award.

Fowler is the co-founder of the Otherwise Award and the current president of the Clarion Foundation. She lives in Santa Cruz, California. She will be in residence at the HWK from September through December, 2024.