Kate Wheeler (novelist)

Kate Wheeler (born 1955 Oklahoma) is an American novelist and meditation teacher. Since 2016, she has served as the coordinator of the Meditation Retreat Teacher Training Program at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, where she trains senior students to be empowered as teachers. She also is a practicing Buddhist teacher and instructor who offers retreats, talks, and personal guidance to communities and individuals. Wheeler received a Pushcart Prize as well as two O. Henry Awards.

Life
She was raised in various parts of South America. She graduated from Rice University, and Stanford University. She was ordained a Buddhist nun in Burma. She teaches at Southwest Texas State University. She was a panelist at the Key West Literary Seminar.

She is married and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Awards

 * 1981 Second prize, Xerox-Atlantic Monthly American Short Story Contest
 * 1982 O. Henry Awards, for La Victoire
 * 1983 Pushcart Prize, for Judgment
 * 1992 The Best American Short Stories 1992
 * 1993 O. Henry Awards, for Improving My Average
 * 1993 PEN/Faulkner runner-up
 * 1994 Whiting Award
 * 1994 NEA Fellowship
 * 1996 Twenty best novelists under 40 in US, Granta
 * 1997 Best of Outside: the First 20 Years
 * 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship
 * 1999 Somerville Arts Council Grant
 * 2002 Best American Travel Writing
 * 2008 Best Women's Travel Writing
 * 2008 The Best Buddhist Writing
 * 2008 Radcliffe Institute Fellow

Anthologies

 * "Contemporary Fiction: Granta's Best of the Young American Novelists " 1996