Karen's new story, "What I Didn't See," is now available at SciFiction.
The Jane Austen Book Club, Putnam, 2004
Sister Noon, a novel published by Putnam, Marian Wood imprint, May 2001
Artificial Things, twelve short stories published by Bantam in 1986, reprinted in 1992.
Peripheral Vision, five short stories published by Pulphouse, 1990.
Sarah Canary, a novel, published by Henry Holt, October 1991.
Letters from Home, a three-author collection containing six of my stories, published in Britain by the Women's Press, August, 1991.
The Sweetheart Season, a novel published by Henry Holt, Marian Wood imprint, fall of 1996.
Collected Poems
Black Glass, a short story collection published by Henry Holt, Marian Wood imprint, February, 1998. Contains two original stories — "Go Back" and "The Travails"
"Praxis" — March, 1985
"The Lake was Full of Artificial Things" — October, 1985
"War of the Roses" — December, 1985
"The Dragon's Head" — August, 1986
"The Faithful Companion at Forty" — July, 1987
"Lily Red" — July, 1988
"Duplicity" — December, 1989
"Lieserl" — July, 1990
"Standing Room Only" — August, 1997
"Rites of Intensification" — Winter, 1985 (poetry)
"The Schwarzschild Radius" — Winter, 1986 (poetry)
"Glass Houses" — Winter, 1986 (poetry)
"Pieta" — Winter, 1986. (poetry)
"The Poplar Street Study" — June, 1985
"Wild Boys" — March, 1986
"Face Value" — November, 1986
"The Dark" — June, 1991
"The Natives"September, 1985
"Heartland" — Spring, 1988
"Game Night at the Fox and Goose" — Spring, 1989
"My Son Asks About his Surgery" — Fall/Winter, 1985, (poetry)
"Faded Roses" — November, 1989,
"Reefers," jointly authored story, online, 1997
"Poem Under Reconstruction" — January, 1985, (poetry)
"Solomon's Child"(poetry)
"Contention" — February, 1986
"The Elizabeth Complex" — Winter, 1996
"The Gate of Ghosts" translated into German, 1988, in Wassermans Roboter.
"Other Planes" translated into German, 1989, in Papa Godzilla.
"Recalling Cinderella" — Writers of the Future. 1985.
"Letters from Home," — In the Fields of Fire, an anthology of Vietnam stories, edited by Jack and Jeanne Dann, 1987.
The Year's Best Science Fiction, edited by Gardner Dozois, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1991.
"Heartland." — The Best of Interzone, 1988. edited by David Pringle; Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, #6
"Game Night at the Fox and Goose." — What Might Have Been, Volume I, edited by Gregory Benford and Martin Greenberg, 1989.
"The Night Wolf." — The Skin of the Soul, edited by Lisa Tuttle for Women's Press, 1990.
"Game Night at the Fox and Goose." — The Best of Interzone, 1989. edited by David Pringle.
"Black Glass." — Full Spectrum 3, edited by Betsy Mitchell, Amy Stout, Lou Aronica. 1991.
"Lieserl" — The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Terry Windling and Ellen Datlow, 1991.
"Letters from Home" and "The Lake was Full of Artificial Things" — Swords into Ploughshares, A "Home Front" Anthology, ed. by Sandra Gurvis, 1991.
"Shimabara." — Full Spectrum 5, edited by Jennifer Hershey. 1995.
"The Marianas Islands." — Intersections: edited by Kessel, Van Name, Butner. Tor Publications, 1995.
"The Brew." — Immortal Unicorns: edited by Janet Berliner, Peter Beagle. HarperPrism, 1995.
"The Queen of Hearts and Swords." — Tales of the Impossible; edited by Janet Berliner, David Copperfield, HarperPrism, 1996.
"The Black Fairy's Curse." — Black Raven, White Swan; edited by Ellen Datlow, June, 1997.
"The Travails." — The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Terry Windling and Ellen Datlow, 1999.
"Utopian and science fiction on childbirth," Non-fiction article in Encyclopedia of Childbearing, ed. Barbara Katz Rothman. 1991
Review for Washington Post Book World, October, 1989, February, 1994
Review for Chicago Tribune, May 1992
Second review for the San Jose Mercury, 1992
Review for Boston Globe, May 3, 1992
Review for Women's Book Review, June, 1993; January 1996.
Review for Los Angeles Times, June, 1993.
"Duplicity" Best Horror Stories, 1991.
"The Poplar Street Study" Great SF Writers of the 1990's. Dove Audio
Philip K. Dick nominee, 1987
John W. Campbell Award for best new sf writer, 1987
Nebula nominee, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1997, 1998
Hugo nominee, 1987, 1997
NEA Grant in Prose, 1988
Samuel Goldwyn Award for Screenwriting; second place, 1989
Finalist, Bay Area Book Reviewer's Award for Sarah Canary, 1992
Commonwealth Award for Best First Novel for Sarah Canary, 1992
New York Times notable book for 1991: Sarah Canary
New York Times notable book for 1996: Sweetheart Season
American Library notable book for 1996: Sweetheart Season
Writer in Residence at Cleveland State University; Spring, 1990
Frequent instructor at the Clarion Writers Workshop, Michigan State University, and Clarion West in Seattle, Washington
Instructor and administrator every summer, Imagination Workshop; Cleveland State University.
Instructor at Stanford University, Spring 1996, 97, 98.
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