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Summary

Kathryn Trueblood (born February 27, 1960) is an American short story writer, novelist, and professor. As an author, she is preoccupied by developments in modern medicine. Her fiction explores the thorny questions posed for human identity by reproductive technology, fertility treatment, and pharmaceuticals.

Professional

Trueblood received her undergraduate degree in English from me U.C. Berkeley, a certificate from Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course, and an M.F.A.in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. She studied with Ishmael Reed, Shawn Wong, and Annie Dillard, among others She Is a Professor of English at Western Washington University where she has served on the faculty since 1991.

In 2013, Trueblood was awarded the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, judged by Jane Smiley and sponsored by the Bellevue Literary Review. In 2011, she won the Red Hen Press Short Story Award and was given a grant by the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Her most recent novella, Diary of a Slut, was published electronically in 2014 by Shebooks.net, a new digital publisher of women’s writing. Her most recent book, The Baby Lottery, was selected by the American Booksellers Association as a Book Sense Pick in 2007. Her first story collection, The Sperm Donor’s Daughter received a Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize in 2000. Her stories and articles have been published in Shebooks, Poets and Writers Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, Glimmer Train, The Seattle Review, and Zyzzyva, and others.

Personal

Trueblood’s father was an obstetrician in the catalyst for her interest in medical issues. As a young man, he served his medical residency before Roe versus Wade in the labor-and-delivery ward of Los Angeles County hospital where he attended to women with botched abortions. Her consciousness as a feminist was also shaped by her mother, who was a script supervisor On one of the first multicultural films made in the U.S. – House Made of Dawn by N Scott Momaday.

Trueblood was born in Los Angeles, raised there, and in the Sierra Nevada. She is a fifth generation Westerner. Her mother and her aunt married her father and his brother, and then both couples divorced after having children. This made her childhood unique and forged her as a writer-many voices and versions surrounding a common event.

Select Publications

Novella

Diary of a Slut (Shebooks:), 2014. ISBN 13: 978-1-9408-3846-5

Books

The Baby Lottery, a novel selected as a July 2007 Book Sense Pick from the American Booksellers Association. (The Permanent Press: New York), 2007.ISBN 13: 978-1-57962-151-3

The Sperm Donor’s Daughter and Other Tales of Modern Family (The Permanent Press: New York), 1998. ISBN 10: 1-57962-006-X,

Anthologies

Homeground, co-edited with Linda Stovall (Blue Heron: Oregon), 1996.

The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards, co-edited with Ishmael Reed and Shawn Wong (W. W. Norton: New York), 1992.

Book Reviews

The Pacific Rim Review of Books, “Heightening the Senses,” a review of The Whole Wide World, by Robert Lalonde, Fall 2006.

The Seattle Weekly: “Waiting on a Friend,” a review of Vigil for a Stranger by Kitty Burns Florey, “Books Quarterly,” May 31, 1995.

The Seattle Weekly: “French Firebrand,” a review of A Frozen Woman by Annie Ernaux, October 1995

The Seattle Weekly: “Erdrich’s Big Gamble,” a review of Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich, “Books Quarterly,” December 1, 1994 (2000 words).

The Seattle Weekly: “Croatian Feminist,: a review of Marble Skin by Slavenka Drakulic, August 31, 1994.

The Before Columbus Review: A Quarterly Review of Multicultrural Literature co-published with the American Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Washington. Six titles reviews,1989-1990.

Publishers Weekly. Twelve titles review as a staff reviewer, Spring 1986.

Kathryn Trueblood
Summary

Kathryn Trueblood (born February 27, 1960) is an American short story writer, novelist, and professor. As an author, she is preoccupied by developments in modern medicine. Her fiction explores the thorny questions posed for human identity by reproductive technology, fertility treatment, and pharmaceuticals.

Professional

Trueblood received her undergraduate degree in English from me U.C. Berkeley, a certificate from Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course, and an M.F.A.in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. She studied with Ishmael Reed, Shawn Wong, and Annie Dillard, among others She Is a Professor of English at Western Washington University where she has served on the faculty since 1991.

In 2013, Trueblood was awarded the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, judged by Jane Smiley and sponsored by the Bellevue Literary Review. In 2011, she won the Red Hen Press Short Story Award and was given a grant by the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Her most recent novella, Diary of a Slut, was published electronically in 2014 by Shebooks.net, a new digital publisher of women’s writing. Her most recent book, The Baby Lottery, was selected by the American Booksellers Association as a Book Sense Pick in 2007. Her first story collection, The Sperm Donor’s Daughter received a Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize in 2000. Her stories and articles have been published in Shebooks, Poets and Writers Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, Glimmer Train, The Seattle Review, and Zyzzyva, and others.

Personal

Trueblood’s father was an obstetrician in the catalyst for her interest in medical issues. As a young man, he served his medical residency before Roe versus Wade in the labor-and-delivery ward of Los Angeles County hospital where he attended to women with botched abortions. Her consciousness as a feminist was also shaped by her mother, who was a script supervisor On one of the first multicultural films made in the U.S. – House Made of Dawn by N Scott Momaday.

Trueblood was born in Los Angeles, raised there, and in the Sierra Nevada. She is a fifth generation Westerner. Her mother and her aunt married her father and his brother, and then both couples divorced after having children. This made her childhood unique and forged her as a writer-many voices and versions surrounding a common event.

Select Publications

Novella

Diary of a Slut (Shebooks:), 2014. ISBN 13: 978-1-9408-3846-5

Books

The Baby Lottery, a novel selected as a July 2007 Book Sense Pick from the American Booksellers Association. (The Permanent Press: New York), 2007.ISBN 13: 978-1-57962-151-3

The Sperm Donor’s Daughter and Other Tales of Modern Family (The Permanent Press: New York), 1998. ISBN 10: 1-57962-006-X,

Anthologies

Homeground, co-edited with Linda Stovall (Blue Heron: Oregon), 1996.

The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards, co-edited with Ishmael Reed and Shawn Wong (W. W. Norton: New York), 1992.

Book Reviews

The Pacific Rim Review of Books, “Heightening the Senses,” a review of The Whole Wide World, by Robert Lalonde, Fall 2006.

The Seattle Weekly: “Waiting on a Friend,” a review of Vigil for a Stranger by Kitty Burns Florey, “Books Quarterly,” May 31, 1995.

The Seattle Weekly: “French Firebrand,” a review of A Frozen Woman by Annie Ernaux, October 1995

The Seattle Weekly: “Erdrich’s Big Gamble,” a review of Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich, “Books Quarterly,” December 1, 1994 (2000 words).

The Seattle Weekly: “Croatian Feminist,: a review of Marble Skin by Slavenka Drakulic, August 31, 1994.

The Before Columbus Review: A Quarterly Review of Multicultrural Literature co-published with the American Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Washington. Six titles reviews,1989-1990.

Publishers Weekly. Twelve titles review as a staff reviewer, Spring 1986.