MacArthur “genius” Fellowship recipient, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and bestselling author Karen Russell has written some of the strangest, most beautiful, most fantastical, and most captivating fiction of recent years. In one masterful story after another, Russell marries the magical to the intimate, creating images that give form to our own most intimate desires and fears. She will be Zooming in to the Fairfield University Library Auditorium to join in conversation with National Book Award-winning author and Fairfield professor Phil Klay. The event may be attended virtually or in person.