Karen E. Bender
Karen E. Bender is the author of the novel Like Normal People (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Choice (MacAdam/Cage). Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Zoetrope: All-Story, Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, and the Pushcart Prize series.
Articles
- Candidate
There were two registered Democrats on her street that she knew of, and four Republicans. They would all walk into the voting booths, educated or uneducated, intelligent and dumb, and their votes would be worth the same.

