Karen Laugesen Russell

Karen Laugesen Russell is a New Zealand American living in California. Her unpublished writing draws on a Kiwi childhood, and a mosaic of travel and jobs including: first female chauffeur in the history of a prestigious London firm, kitchenware sales to West Africans, translating for the film Kombi Nation, and promoting New Zealand to international media.

Issue 6

Green

“Look. ” Legs braced, Dad points at the shore, to a totara, way bigger than its shoulder-hugging brothers, a tree protest of what green can be.

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