Karen Heuler


Karen Heuler is an American writer of literary, dark fantasy, science fiction, and horror short stories, and novels.
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Biography

Heuler was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended Long Island University, where she received her master's degree in English in 1976. She worked in various jobs including publishing, crosswords, art books, Wall Street and retail.
She teaches occasionally for New York University School of Professional Studies, and other academic institutions. She has had over 100 stories published in literary and speculative journals and anthologies, as well as four novels, three collections, and one novella. Her work focuses on the perception of reality and often features doubles and doppelgangers from both a literary and speculative point of view. She frequently uses literary works as a reference point for speculative stories, as an indicator of the continuity of topics across genres.

Work

Books

In Search of Lost Time, Aqueduct Press, 2017Other Places, Aqueduct Press, Oct. 2016 Glorious Plague, Permuted Press, April 2014The Inner City, ChiZine Publications, Canada, 2013The Made-up Man, Livingston Press, Livingston, Alabama, May 2011Journey to Bom Goody, Livingston Press, Livingston, Alabama, May 2005The Soft Room, Livingston Press, Livingston, Alabama, May 2004The Other Door, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri, October 1995

Anthologies

  • Tiny Crimes, Black Balloon Publishing, 2019
  • Killing It Softly 2, Digital Fiction Publishing, Fall 2017
  • Invaders, Tachyon Publications, 2016
  • Dreams from the Witch House, Dark Regions Press, 2016
  • The Bestiary, Cheeky Frawg Books, 2016
  • Mosaics, DayDreams Dandelions Press, 2016
  • Black Apples, Belladonna Publishing, 2014
  • Not Just Rockets and Robots: Daily Science Fiction Year One, 2012
  • Year’s Best SF 17, Harper Voyager, 2012
  • Realms 2: the Second Year of Clarkesworld, Prime Books, 2010
  • Best of the Web, Dzanc Books, 2009
  • The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, Prime Books, 2009
  • Phantom, Prime Books, 2009
  • Bandersnatch, Prime Books, 2007
  • ParaSpheres, Omnidawn Publishing, 2006
  • Snakes: An Anthology, M. Evans and Co, 2003
  • Prize Stories The Best of 1998: The O. Henry Awards, Anchor Books, 1998

Short stories

Among the Missing, Saturday Evening Post online, May 11, 2018Heading for the Border, Shoreline of Infinity, March 2018The Dream Catcher, TJ Eckleburg Review, Sept 2017Here and There, Conjunctions, Spring 2017The Reordering of Tonia Vivian, Aliterate Journal, May 2017That Place, Maine Review, Winter 2017What Approaches, Digital Fiction Horror, Nov. 2016 Goodness in All Its Forms, Saturday Evening Post online, Aug. 5, 2016The Smallest Possible Ships, SciPhi Journal, June 2016After They’ve Gone, Strangelet, June 2016The Rising Up, See the Elephant, Issue 2, 2016The Very Difficult Job, Tin House Flash Fridays, Jan. 2016Egg Island, Clarkesworld, Oct. 2015Bright Bright Bedlam, Kenyon Review Online, Aug. 5, 2015The Lovely Kisselthwist, Saturday Evening Post Online, March 20, 2015The Alien Came Over the Hill, Daily Science Fiction, July 13, 2015The Terrible Journey, Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2015The Mechanical Nature of Love, BuzzyMag, Dec. 4, 2014The Stray Curse, Indiana Review, Summer 2014Space Mama, Daily Science Fiction, Oct. 8, 2013How to Be a Foreigner, Perihelion, Sept. 12, 2013 What Approaches, Penumbra magazine, fall 2012 The Clockworm, Journal of Unlikely Entomology, fall 2012Thick Water, Albedo One magazine, Spring 2011 The Large People, Daily Science Fiction, July 2011The Hair, Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2011Searching for Penny, American Literary Review, Spring 2011Fish Wish, Weird Tales Magazine, Winter 2011Elvis in Bloom, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Summer 2011Beds, Moon Milk Review, Feb. 2010Mice, Vestal Review, Winter 2010The Great Spin, Confrontation, winter 2010Exile, Fantasy magazine, April 19, 2010 The Great Spin, Wet Ink magazine, September 2009Silver Watches Everything, StoryQuarterly magazine, Issue 43Joey, the Upstairs Boy, Alaska Quarterly Review, 2009Oh He Is, Fantasy magazine, May 18, 2009The Completely Rechargeable Man, Clarkesworld, Dec. 2008Ball Lightning, Oxmag, 2008The Difficulties of Evolution, Weird Tales, June/July 2008The House of Gold, Odyssey magazine, March 2008Landscape, with Fish, Weird Tales, Feb. 2008The Inner City, Cemetery Dance, Feb. 2008Right Ida, The St. Ann's Review, winter 2007/08Shady Guy, Shenandoah, winter 2007/08Games, Crab Creek Review, Fall 2007Talking about Rita, The Pedestal Magazine, May/June 2007 Guest Appearance, Crab Orchard Review, Fall 2005The Log, Arts & Letters, Fall 2005 Ooh, North Dakota Quarterly, Summer 2005 Road Work, Phoebe, vol 33 no. 2, fall 2004 The Naked Man, Clackamas Review, 2004, vol. 8Primo Chemo, Serpentinia, 2002 awards issue Cookies, Night Train Magazine, vol. II, Summer 2003Fool Radiance, Literary Review, Fall 2002Metropolitan Pigeon, The Bear Deluxe, Number 19, Summer/Fall 2002Slyboy! Sneakerheart!, Literal Latte, Volume 8 Number 1, Summer 2002Ordinary, Confrontation, No. 78/79. Spring/Summer 2002Chemo Dreams, Sycamore Review, West Lafayette, Indiana, Summer 2000The Snakes of Central Park, Mid American Review, Bowling Green, Ohio, Spring/summer 2000Satan In All His Glory, Michigan Quarterly Review, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Spring/summer 2000Graced, Confrontation, Brookville, New York, Summer 1999The Right Chemistry, New York Stories, Long Island City, New York, Winter/spring 1999At the Edge of the River, Alaska Quarterly Review, Anchorage, Alaska, Summer/Fall 1998Me and My Enemy, Virginia Quarterly Review, Charlottesville, Virginia, Autumn 1997, Vol. 73 No. 4The Escape Artist, International Quarterly, Tallahassee, Florida, 1997, Vol. 3 No. 1And the Snake, So Sinuous, Witness, Farmington Hills, Michigan, Vol. XI, No. 1 1997The Hole Story, Beloit Fiction magazine, Beloit, Wisconsin, Summer 1995Sick Leave, Alaska Quarterly Review, Anchorage, Alaska, Summer/Fall 1995Overpowering Joy, Ms. Magazine, New York, New York, March/April 1995The Revolt of Everyday Things, Massachusetts Review, Amherst, Massachusetts, Summer 1993How Lightly He Stepped in the Air, Short Fiction by Women, New York, New York, Issue 4Like a Piston, like a Flame, Crosscurrents, Westlake Village, California, Winter 91/92Figaro, Figueroa, The Boston Review, Boston, Massachusetts, Jan./Feb. 1991Simple Accommodations, New Virginia Review, Richmond, Virginia, Winter 1990/91Ghost Nets, TriQuarterly 77, Evanston, Illinois, Winter 1989/90The Lizard Woman, Kansas Quarterly, Manhattan, Kansas, Vol. 19, No. 3, Summer 1987The Sieve, Clifton Magazine, Cincinnati, Ohio, Winter 1987In A Perfect World, Carolina Quarterly, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Spring 1986, Vol. 38, No. 3

Awards and honorable mentions