What is Karen E. Bender?
{{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL}} '''Karen E. Bender''' is an [[Americans|American]] [[novelist]]. She won a 1997 [[Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award]]. She was a finalist for the 2015 [[National Book Award]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/people/karen-e-bender/|title=Karen E. Bender|website=National Book Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-06-18}}</ref> == Life == She graduated from [[University of California, Los Angeles]], and [[University of Iowa]]. She has taught at [[Hollins University]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollins.edu/directory/karen-bender/|title=Karen Bender {{!}} Creative Writing Professor {{!}} Hollins University|website=Hollins|language=en|access-date=2020-06-18|archive-date=2020-06-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622025548/https://www.hollins.edu/directory/karen-bender/|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[University of Iowa]], [[Tunghai University]], [[Warren Wilson College]], [[Chatham University]], and the [[University of North Carolina Wilmington|University of North Carolina, Wilmington]]. Her work has appeared in ''[[Granta]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://granta.com/contributor/karen-e-bender/|title=Karen E. Bender|website=Granta|language=en-US|access-date=2020-06-18}}</ref> ''[[Narrative Magazine]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/karen-e-bender|title=Karen E. Bender|last=Bender|first=Karen E.|date=2013-01-10|website=Narrative Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2020-06-18}}</ref> ''[[Ploughshares]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pshares.org/authors/karen-e-bender|title=Karen E. Bender {{!}} Ploughshares|website=www.pshares.org|access-date=2020-06-18}}</ref> ''[[Harvard Review]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.harvardreview.org/contributor/karen-e-bender/|title=Karen E. Bender – Harvard Review|language=en-US|access-date=2020-06-18}}</ref> and ''[[Guernica (magazine)|Guernica]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.guernicamag.com/author/karen-e-bender/|title=Stories by karen-e-bender on Guernica|websit