Katharine HaakeKatharine Haake's books include an eco-dystopian science fiction fable, The Time of Quarantine; a hybrid California prose lyric, That Water, Those Rocks; three collections of stories; and a chapbook of fabulist parables, Assumptions We Might Make Abot the Postworld. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in such journals as One Story, The Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, Witness, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fiction International, and Shenandoah, and received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and been listed as distinguished by Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. One short story collection was a New York Times notable book; another was an LA Times bestseller. A collaborative text/image diptych she did with artist Lisa Bloomfield is included in Bloomfield's portfolio in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Haake is also a longtime contributor to the scholarship of creative writing theory and the author of the foundational text, What Our Speech Disrupts: Feminism and Creative Writing Studies. A recent fellow at the Djerassi/Leonardo Scientific Delirium Madness residency, Haake has also been awarded a Master Artist's Fellowship from the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at California State University, Northridge. Read More Read Less