Karen Shepard

Karen Shepard is a Chinese-American born and raised in New York City. She is the author of four novels, An Empire of Women, The Bad Boy's Wife , Don't I Know You? , and The Celestials . Her short fiction has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, Tin House , and Ploughshares , among others. Her nonfiction has appeared in More , Self , USA Today , and the Boston Globe , among others. She teaches writing and literature at Williams College in Williamstown, MA, where she lives with her husband,...See more

Karen Shepard is a Chinese-American born and raised in New York City. She is the author of four novels, An Empire of Women, The Bad Boy's Wife , Don't I Know You? , and The Celestials . Her short fiction has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, Tin House , and Ploughshares , among others. Her nonfiction has appeared in More , Self , USA Today , and the Boston Globe , among others. She teaches writing and literature at Williams College in Williamstown, MA, where she lives with her husband, novelist Jim Shepard, and their three children. See less