KATHARINE HAAKEKATHARINE HAAKE is a fourth generation Californian whose work reflects a deep engagement with the land, the people, and the history of this place. Her most recent work is a chapbook of fabulist parables, Assumptions We Might Make About the Postworld, a 2017 release from Gold Line Press/Ricochet Editions. Her other books include an eco-dystopian science fiction fable, The Time of Quarantine; a hybrid California prose lyric, That Water, Those Rock; and three collections of stories: The Origin of Stars, the LA Time bestseller The Height and Depth of Everything, and the NY Times notable No Reason on Earth. Haake’s writing has long appeared in such magazines as One Story, The Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, New Letters, and Witness, and has been recognized as distinguished by Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays, among others. A collaborative text/image piece she did with artist, Lisa Bloomfield, is included in Bloomfield’s portfolio in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
A long-time contributor to the theory and pedagogy of Creative Writing, Haake is also the author of What Our Speech Disrupts: Feminism and Creative Writing Studies, and, with Hans Ostrom and the late Wendy Bishop, Metro: Journeys in Writing Creatively. Haake is a recipient of an Individual Artist’s Grant from the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles and a Professor of Creative Writing at California State University, Northridge. LINKS TO HAAKE'S WORK APPEARING ONLINE
Stories: Diptych: Girl, Memory, in Lintrony Diptych: Bunch, Duck-Dog, in Fairy Tale Review Diptych: Crown, Fuzz, in Litro Diptych: Forbidden, Red Rubber Ball, in Shenandoah Arrow Math, in Michigan Quarterly Review Essays: A Planet a Little Like Our Own, from Broad Street Diptych: Photograph, Brain, from Alaska Quarterly Review Diptych: Javelinas, Aliens, from Drunken Boat Diptych: Chrysalis, Prayer, from Crazyhorse PRAISE FOR HAAKE'S WORK
That Water, Those Rocks is like a finely made watch with a transparent case that allows us to look inside and admire not only the beautiful ornamentation but the way it all works. --LA Times Book Review With the mesmerizing voice of a natural born-storyteller…Haake equates nature's basic elements (earth, fire, water) with those of mankind (love, livelihood, safety.) --Booklist Haake grew up in northern California, and to judge by her new collection she may very well be the West Coast's splendid answer to the glittering stars of New Yorker heaven. --Library Journal Original and accomplished . . . Haake's unusual narrative style is what truly sets the collection apart. --Kirkus Katharine Haake's Origin of Stars is as beautiful and transcendent as the Milky Way. At the center of each story is the heartbreaking vulnerability of her characters, discovering the most important reason for being alive as the world crashes in around us-to connect with each other, as Katharine Haake connects with us. —Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief and Animal Crackers, recipient of the 2009 PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editorial Excellence. REVIEWS
Assumptions We Might Make About the Postworld Medium.com Colorado Review The Origin of Stars, Mostly Fiction Book Reviews That Water, Those Rocks, LA Times Book Review BOOKS FROM OTHER PUBLISHERS Assumptions We Might Make About the Postworld, Gold Line Press/Ricochet Editions (2017) That Water, Those Rocks, University of Nevada Press (2003). The Height and Depth of Everything, University of Nevada Press (2001). What Our Speech Disrupts: Feminism and Creative Writing Theory, NCTE (2000). No Reason on Earth, Dragon Gate Press, Seattle, Washington: Dragon Gate, Inc. (1986). OTHER California State University Northridge Onestory Interview |
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