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Yang Huang (born June 13, 1971) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, Living Treasures, was a finalist for the 2008 Bellwether Prize.

Early life
Yang studied applied physics at Tongji University from 1988 to 1990, received a B.S in Computer Science and B.A. in English from Florida Atlantic University in 1996, an M.A in English from Boston College in 1998, and graduated from the MFA program at University of Arizona in 2000.

Career
Her stories have been featured in The Best American Short Stories, Conjunctions, Granta, The New Yorker, Oxford American, and Zoetrope.

She was named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" young writer honoree at a November 2009 ceremony for her first book of short stories, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.

Her second book and first novel, Swamplandia!, about a shabby amusement park set in the Everglades, was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011. It was also included in the New York Times' "10 Best Books of 2011," and won the New York Public Library's 2012 Young Lions Fiction Award.

She is the recipient of the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, for Spring 2012.

She won the Bard Fiction Prize in 2011 for her book St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. She is currently a visiting writer at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

In 2012, Swamplandia! was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. None of the three finalists, however, received enough votes, and no prize was awarded. Her short story "The Hox River Window," published in Zoetrope: All-Story, won the 2012 National Magazine Award for fiction.

A collection of short stories by Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, was published in February 2013.

In Fall 2013, Russell was a distinguished guest teacher of creative writing in the MFA program at Rutgers-Camden.

Works

 * Random House Digital, Inc. 2007, ISBN 978-0-307-27667-4
 * Random House Digital, Inc., 2011, ISBN 978-0-307-26399-5
 * Random House Digital, Inc., 2013, ISBN 978-0-307-96108-2

Short Stories

 * Haunting Olivia
 * ZZ's Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers by Karen Russell
 * The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis

Category:1971 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century American novelists Category:American short story writers Category:American women novelists Category:Boston College alumni Category:University of Arizona alumni Category:Florida Atlantic University alumni Category:Tongji University alumni Category:American women writers Category:Writers from Florida Category:Women short story writers Category:Female writers from the United States