Karen Gettert Shoemaker

Karen Gettert Shoemaker

Karen Gettert Shoemaker

Karen Gettert Shoemaker is the author of Night Sounds and Other Stories and the novel The Meaning of Names. Awards for her writing include a Nebraska Press Association Award for Feature Writing, two Independent Artist Fellowship Awards from the Nebraska Arts Council, and a Nebraska Book Award for Short Fiction. Her work has been anthologized in A Different Plain: Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers, Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace, An Untidy Season and Nebraska Presence: An Anthology of Poetry.