Katharine Haake

Katharine Haake is a fourth generation native Californian whose work reflects a deep engagement with the land, the people, and the history of this place, a perspective that now, with her most recent novel, The Time of Quarantine, includes a speculative look into the future. In addition to the SPD bestselling Quarantine, she is the author of a hybrid novel, That Water, Those Rocks, and three collections of short stories, the eco-fabulist The Origin of Stars, the LA Times bestselling The Height and Depth of Everything, and the New York Times notable No Reason on Earth. Her writing has long appeared in such magazines as One Story, Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, New Letters, and Witness, and has been recognized as distinguished by Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, and Best of the West, among others.

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.