Katharine Haake

Professor
Ph.D. 1984. University of Utah
Office: Sierra Tower, Room 827
Phone: 677-3427
Email: kate.haake@csun.edu

Interests:

Narrative Writing and Theory; Creative Writing Studies; World Writing; Multi-discursive Forms

Biography:

Katharine Haake's most recent books are a novel, That Water, Those Rocks (2003), and a collection of short stories, The Height and Depth of Everything (2001), both from the University of Nevada's Western Literature Series. Her first book of stories, No Reason on Earth (1986) was from Dragon Gate Press. She is currently at work on a novel. New stories have recently appeared in The Iowa Review, Witness, One Story, and The Santa Monica Review, and were featured in the online magazine, Segue, as well as in the New Short Fiction Series, LA's only "live literary magazine." Her fiction has been recognized by Pushcart Prize nominations, distinguished story recognitions from Best American Short Stories and Best of the West, and an Editor's Choice Award from Cream City Review. A recent recipient of an Individual Artist's Grant from the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles, she was also recognized as the 1998/99 Jerome Richfield Memorial Scholar at California State University, Northridge. Her other books are What Our Speech Disrupts: Feminism and Creative Writing Studies (NCTE, 2000) and, with Hans Ostrom and the late Wendy Bishop, the textbook Metro: Journeys in Writing Creatively (Longmans, 2001). She is currently chairs the Creative Writing program at CSU Northridge, where, since 1986, she had taught and developed a wide range of courses in narrative, writing, and theory. She lives in Los Angeles and is the mother of two sons.

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