Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler is an American novelist whose book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013) won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The novel is a formally inventive story about a woman who grew up with a chimpanzee sister and the long-term consequences of that unusual childhood. Fowler is also known for The Jane Austen Book Club (2004), a novel about a book club in California that was adapted into a successful film, and for her science fiction work including Sarah Canary (1991). She is a co-founder of the Tiptree Award (now the Otherwise Award), which recognises science fiction that explores issues of gender. Fowler lives in Santa Cruz, California, and has been an important bridge figure between literary fiction and genre fiction throughout her career.