The Marvel of the Ordinary: Crafting Extraordinary Stories from Everyday Life

A conversation with award-winning author Karin Lin-Greenberg, Siena College Associate Professor of English.

Karin Lin-Greenberg‘s first story collection, Faulty Predictions, won the 2013 Flannery O’Connor Award in Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press and won gold in the Short Story category of Foreword Reviews’ INDIE Book of the Year in 2014. Her second story collection, Vanished, won the 2021 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction and was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2022. Her debut novel, You Are Here, was published by Counterpoint Press in May 2023. Her stories have appeared in literary journals including The Antioch Review, Boulevard, Colorado Review, New England Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Story, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and she was a finalist for the Chicago Tribune‘s 2018 Nelson Algren Award. Her story “Housekeeping” received a Pushcart Prize and was listed as a Distinguished Story of 2020 in Best American Short Stories 2021. She has been awarded fellowships from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Wesleyan Writers Conference, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, the Longleaf Writers Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and MacDowell. She has taught creative writing at Missouri State University, the College of Wooster, and Appalachian State University. Currently, she lives in upstate New York and is an associate professor in the English Department at Siena College. She also teaches in Carlow University’s low-residency MFA in Creative Writing program.

This event is open to the public. Books will be available to purchase. For more information, call 518-783-2545 or email cwaiksnoris@siena.edu.