Katharine Haake

Katharine Haake's new novel is The Time of Quarantine (What Books Press, 2012). She is the author of the hybrid novel, That Water, Those Rocks (University of Nevada, 2003), and three prior collections of short stories--the eco-fabulist The Origin of Stars (What Books, 2009); the LA Times best-selling The Height and Depth of Everything (Nevada, 2001), and the New York Times notable No Reason on Earth (Dragon Gate Press, 1986). Her work has appeared widely in such magazines as One Story, Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, Witness, New Letters, and The Michigan Quarterly Review, and has been featured in the online magazine, Segue, as well as in LA's New Short Fiction Performance Series.

Haake is a recipient of an Individual Artist's Grant from the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles, along with distinguished story recognitions from Best American Short Stories and Best of the West, an Editor's Choice Award from Cream City Review, and an Honorable Mention in the Fountain Award for Speculative Fiction.

A regular contributor to scholarship in the theory and pedagogy of creative writing, she is also the author of What Our Speech Disrupts: Feminism and Creative Writing Studies (NCTE, 2000), with Hans Ostrom and the late Wendy Bishop, Metro: Journeys in Writing Creatively (Longmans, 2000). She teaches at California State University, Northridge.