Maud Casey reads from her forthcoming novel, The Man Who Walked Away. Karen Russell reads her short story The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis. They are introduced by Duncan White, Newhouse Resident Fellow at Wellesley College. Maud Casey is the author of two novels, The Shape of Things to Come, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Genealogy, as well as a collection of stories, Drastic. Her stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in The American Scholar, The New York Times, Oxford American, A Public Space, Salon, and The Threepenny Review.  She has received international fellowships from the Fundaçion Valparaiso, the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, Villa Hellebosch, Château de Lavigny, and Dora Maar, and is the recipient of the Calvino Prize. Karen Russell’s debut novel, Swamplandia!, was chosen by The New York Times as one of the “Ten Best Books of 2011,” and was long-listed for The Orange Prize. Russell has been featured in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” list, and was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. In 2009, she received the “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation.  Formerly a writer-in-residence at Bard College and Bryn Mawr College, she is the recipient of the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize and was awarded a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin.  Russell is also the author of the celebrated short-story collection, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and the short story collection Vampires in the Lemon Grove, (published by Knopf in January 2013). Russell received her B.A. from Northwestern University in 2003, and her MFA from Columbia University in 2006.