Catherine Browder

CATHERINE BROWDER is a writer of fiction and occasionally nonfiction, a playwright, editor and educator. She has lived in England, Taiwan and Japan as well as several states in the USA. Her award-winning stories has appeared widely, and she is the author of several collections of short stories. She has received fiction fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Missouri Arts Council.

To support "the writing habit" she's taught, for many years, English as a second language overseas and in a variety of immigrant, refugee and academic settings in the USA. For four years she was honored to be the facilitator for the Memory Project at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education as well as teaching in the creative writing program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. While there, she also served as an advisory editor for New Letters Magazine, where her book reviews appeared.

Her debut novel, The Manning Girl, is forthcoming in late 2023 and won the Petrichor Prize in fiction from Regal House Publishing.

She is a great proponent (as well as practitioner) of short form writing (stories, novellas, plays) and hopes someday short fiction will receive again the respect it deserves! Among her favorite short form writers are Katherine Mansfield, Anton Chekhov, William Trevor, Isaac Babel, Andrea Barrett and Edith Pearlman.

She currently lives in Kansas City, MO, with her husband and their beloved three-legged cat.