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Karen Lillis

Karen Lillis is the author of four novellas, most recently Watch the Doors as They Close (Spuyten Duyvil, 201). Her writing has appeared in The Austin Chronicle, The Brooklyn Rail, Evergreen Review, LA Cultural Weekly, LitHub, New York Nights, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Pop City, and Volume 1 Brooklyn, among others.

Posts by Karen :

Just Passing Through: A Haphazard History of Pittsburgh Hotels

“Even the temp agent in her matching separates couldn’t believe we’d come ‘out of the blue’: ‘No one moves here, they just move back here.’ But there have always been people passing through.”

By Karen Lillis
August 23, 2016
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