The Science of Herself (13 page)

“I must say you're being awfully nice about this,” my mother said.

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2013.

Wit's End
. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2008.

The Jane Austen Book Club
. New York: Putnam, 2004; subsequently published in 27 languages.

Sister Noon
. New York: Putnam, 2001.

The Sweetheart Season: A Novel
. New York: Henry Holt, 1996

Sarah Canary
. New York: Henry Holt, 1991

What I Didn't See, and Other Stories
. Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2010.

Black Glass: Short Fictions. New York: Henry Holt, 1998.

Letters from Home: Stories
, by Pat Cadigan, Karen Joy Fowler, and Pat Murphy. London: Women's Press, 1991.

Artificial Things
. New York: Bantam Books, 1986.

Künstliche Dinge
. München: Heyne Verlag, 1991.

Peripheral Vision
. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse, 1990.

K
AREN
J
OY
F
OWLER ATTENDED
Berkeley during the tumultuous 1960s, earning a degree in political science. She took up writing at thirty after her youngest child started first grade. Her mainstream novels and her science fiction short stories are known for their wry wit, uncompromising humanism, and radical “take” on feminist and other social issues.

The author of six novels and three short story collections, she is also a cofounder of the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award and current president of the Clarion Foundation, which exists to support the annual Clarion Writing Workshop at University of California, San Diego.

Her most famous novel is
The Jane Austen Book Club
, and her most recent novel is
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
, published by Putnam in 2013.

She lives with her husband in Santa Cruz, where they go to sleep each night to the dulcet tones of barking sea lions.

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