meet the author

Karen Winn

Karen is the author of two novels: The Society (Dutton, 2026), and Our Little World (Dutton, 2022). Her short stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Hippocampus, LitHub, and elsewhere, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

She earned her MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. For her undergraduate studies she attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she may or may not have belonged to a secret society.

Writing is her first love and second career; she worked as a nurse for many years. Karen lives in the charming Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston with her husband, two children, and their 100-pound Bernedoodle.