Kathleen Alcalá
Kathleen Alcalá is the author of a short story collection, three novels
set in 19th Century Mexico and the Southwest, and a collection of essays
based on family history. Her work has received the Western States Book
Award, the Governor’s Writers Award, and a Pacific Northwest Booksellers
Association Book Award. She received her second Artist Trust Fellowship
in 2008.
Kathleen has a B.A. in Linguistics from Stanford University and an M.A.
in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. She recently
completed a Master of Fine Arts at the University of New Orleans, which
required tortuous summers in San Miguel de Allende. Her work is often
referred to as magic realism, but Kathleen considers most of it
historical fiction. She does, however, have a great affinity for the
story-telling techniques of magic realism and science fiction, and has
been both a student and instructor in the Clarion West Science Fiction
Workshop.
A permanent faculty member at the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts,
she looks forward to spending part of each January and August with the
students and faculty on Whidbey Island.
If you would like a personalized autographed copy of any of Kathleen Alcalá's books, you may order it from this page.
