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= Katharine Haake = Katharine Haake (born September, 1952) is a fourth generation Californian whose work reflects a deep engagement with the land, the people, and the history of this place. Her forthcoming memoir-in-essays, The Touch of Another Hand, is the recipient of the inaugural 2022 Wolfson Prose Prize.

Education and career
Katharine attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, and graduated with her bachelor's in 1974. She then went on to attend Stanford University, graduating with her master's in 1980. Finally, she attended the University of Utah and graduated with her Ph.D. in 1985.

Katharine has written many different styles, including a hybrid California prose lyric, eco-dystopian science fiction fable, and collections of short stories. Her writing has long appeared in in literary magazines, such as One Story, The Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, New Letters, Witness, The Alaska Quarterly Review, and Leonardo. Her writing has been compared to authors Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy, exploring loss and redemption through the use of evoking and lyrical prose, such as in her novel, The Time of Quarantine. Katharine has done a collaborative text-image piece with artist Lisa Bloomfield, which is included in Bloomfield's portfolio in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Katharine was lead editor on a 2021 anthology, What Falls Away is Always: Writers Over 60 on Writing and Death. She is a well-known figure in the field of Creative Writing Studies, a long-time contributor to its scholoarship and pedagogy, and the author of the foundational What Our Speech Disrupts: Feminism and Creative Writing Studies.

Over the years, Katharine has benefitted from residences at the Djerassi Foundation for the Arts/Scientific Delirium Madness, co-sponsored with Leonardo; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; Hedgebrook Cottages for Women; Ucross; and Montalvo Center for the Arts, as well from a 2005 Master Artist's Fellowship from the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles. Katharine currently sits as a professor of Creative Writing at California State University, Northridge.

Collections of Short Stories

 * No Reason on Earth (Dragon Gate Press, 1986)
 * The Height and Depth of Everything (University of Nevada Press, 2001)
 * The Origin of Stars and Other Stories (What Books Press, 2009)
 * Assumptions We Might Make About the Postworld (Ricochet Editions, 2018)

Novels

 * That Water, Those Rocks (University of Nevada Press, 2003)
 * The Time of Quarantine (What Books Press, 2012)

Anthology

 * What Falls Aways is Always (What Books Press, 2021)

Pedagogy

 * What Our Speech Disrupts: Feminism and Creative Writing Studies (National Council of Teachers, 2000)

Awards and honors

 * 2005 Individual Artist's Grant from the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles
 * 2005 Fountain Award Runner Up for The Immortal Feet
 * 2022 Wolfson Prose Prize for The Touch of Another Hand