Katharine Haake

Fiction Writer

Northridge, CA
California US

Author's Bio

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.

 

Publications & Prizes

Books:
What Happened Was (11:11 Press, 2024)
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The Time of Quarantine (What Books Press, 2012)
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The Origin of Stars and Other Stories (What Books Press, 2009)
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That Water, Those Rocks: A Novel (University of Nevada Press, 2003)
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The Height & Depth of Everything (University of Nevada Press, 2001)
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No Reason on Earth (Dragon Gate Books, 1986)
Prizes won: 

Wolfson Prose Prize, 2022

2023 Nothing Exists Alone Climate Change Fiction Prize, 11:11 Press

Individual Artist's Grant, Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles 2004/2005

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Redding, CA
California
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Last update: Apr 28, 2025