ABOUT
Kara (pronounced kǎra) grew up in Ohio and Indiana, graduated from Vassar College and holds a Masters in Literary Cultures from New York University. She spent a semester in Moscow and has traveled and written in France, Prague, Italy, Poland, and London. She now resides in New York with her husband and two sons.
Kara has recently completed revisions on the memoir, EXIT WOUND: SUICIDE IS NOT A LOVE STORY, and is editing a novel, COUNTRIES OF LOST THINGS. She has published in literary journals such as Quarterly West (“Sarajevo Calling”) and Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts (“My Father’s Guns”). Her story “Moscow When I Was Young” was chosen in the Top 25 for Glimmer Train‘s February 2012 Short Story Award for New Writers. Her novel COUNTRIES OF LOST THINGS was selected as a Semi-Finalist in the Novel-in-Progress category for the 2010 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.
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Your comments in today’s NYTimes were eloquent and deeply touching, especially because they were related to your father’s suicide. I, too, am very glad that the administration is changing its policy and wholeheartedly agree that all families should receive a letter of condolence–our unique connection with each other makes it imperative to have such a communication from the president to a bereft family.