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Katharine Haake
Ph. D. in Creative Writing,
University of Utah, 1984

Professor,
CSU, Northridge: Critical and Narrative
Writing and Theory, Fiction

Katharine Haake's first collection of stories is No Reason on Earth (Dragon Gate, Inc.). Her second is The Height and Depth of Everything (University of Nevada Press). Her stories have appeared widely in such literary magazines as The Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, the Minnesota Review, 13th Moon, and Quarterly West. The first chapter of her current project, an in-progress novel titled That Water, Those Rocks, is forthcoming in Volt. Her fiction has been recognized by numerous awards, including multiple Pushcart Prize nominations, distinguished story recognition from Best American Short Stories and Best of the West, and an Editor's Choice Award in Fiction from Cream City Review. She has written a critical monograph on creative writing, What Our Speech Interrupts: Feminism and Creative Writing Studies, published by NCTE, and a creative writing textbook, co-authored with Wendy Bishop and Hans Ostrom, in the final stages of publication review at Longmans. She holds a Creative Writing MA from Stanford University and a Creative Writing Ph.D. from the University of Utah. A Professor of English at California State University, Northridge, she is also on the faculty of the low residency MFA Creative Writing Program at Antioch, LA.

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