Karen Bell

I’m a graduate of Edinburgh University’s creative writing program and have spent time in India as an ESL teacher. I currently teach composition and creative writing for a branch campus of the University of Pittsburgh. My work has appeared in the literary journal River River and the Scottish online magazine The Grind.

How to Name and Claim Romance

She leaves Radhika to explore the mountains of Andhra Pradesh—not a travelogue kind of adventure—and finds Sandeep a quasi-willing partner in a preordained exercise. Read how it ends in Karen Bell’s “How To Name and Claim Romance.”

Short Story Issue Eight

Karen Bell

I’m a graduate of Edinburgh University’s creative writing program and have spent time in India as an ESL teacher. I currently teach composition and creative writing for a branch campus of the University of Pittsburgh. My work has appeared in the literary journal River River and the Scottish online magazine The Grind.

How to Name and Claim Romance

She leaves Radhika to explore the mountains of Andhra Pradesh—not a travelogue kind of adventure—and finds Sandeep a quasi-willing partner in a preordained exercise. Read how it ends in Karen Bell’s “How To Name and Claim Romance.”

Short Story Issue Eight

Back to Author Index