The Nadine Andreas residency writer to visit campus this year is novelist Karen Russell, visiting campus for workshops and readings Thursday, April 13.

Russell, a Miami native, won the 2012 and 2018 National Magazine Award for fiction, and her first novel, Swamplandia!, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, the “5 under 35” prize from the National Book Foundation, the NYPL Young Lions Award, the Bard Fiction Prize, and is a former fellow of the Cullman Center and the American Academy in Berlin.

Russell is the author of “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” “Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories, Sleep Donation: A Novella,” and most recently, “Orange World.” She is the Endowed Chair at Texas State University’s MFA program, and lives in Portland, Ore.

Russell will spend the day tending to workshops and craft talks (schedule below) followed by an evening reading. Also participating in the reading is poet and teacher Holly Dodge, a third-year MFA student and teaching assistant at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Dodge is co-founder of The Lectern Series, a community educational speaker series. Her poetry and fiction have been featured in various print and online publications. She lives in North Mankato, Minn.

Karen Russell events on April 13. All are free and open to the public.

Workshop

10 a.m.

Performing Arts Center 203B

Craft Talk

3 p.m.

Centennial Student Union Room 253/4/5

Reading with Andreas scholar Holly Dodge

7:30 p.m.

Centennial Student Union Room 253