Katharine Haake

Katharine Haake is the author of the What Happened Was, winner of the 2024 Nothing Exists Alone climate change fiction award from 11:11 Press. A forthcoming memoir-in-essays, The Heaviness of Ghosts, won the inaugural Wolfson Prose Prize and will be published in 2025. Her other books include the eco-dystopian science fiction fable, The Time of Quarantine; the California hybrid prose lyric, That Water, Those Rocks; and three collections of stories. Her work has appeared broadly and been recognized as distinguished by Best American Fiction and Best American Essays, among others. She is a Professor Emerita at California State University, Northridge, and lives in Los Angeles.