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Author Bio• Birth—N/A
• Raised—San Diego, California, USA
• Education—B.A., University of California, Los Angeles;
M.F.A., Columbia University
• Awards—Sirenland Fellowship
• Currently—lives in Brooklyn, New York
Karen Thompson Walker is a graduate of UCLA and the Columbia MFA program and a recipient of the 2011 Sirenland Fellowship as well as a
Bomb magazine fiction prize. A former editor at Simon & Schuster, she wrote
The Age of Miracles in the mornings before work. Born and raised in San Diego, she now lives in Brooklyn with her husband.
The Age of Miracles is her first book. (
From the publisher.)