About the Author

Katharine Haake's award-winning work includes the hybrid novel That Water, Those Rocks and three prior collections of short stories, including THE ORIGIN OF STARS and the Los Angeles Times best-selling, The Height and Depth of Everything. Her fiction has appeared widely in such literary journals as One Story, Witness, The Iowa Review, and Crazyhorse. A regular contributor to scholarship in the theory and pedagogy of creative writing, she is also the author of What Our Speech Disrupts: Feminism and Creative Writing Studies (National Council of Teachers of English, 2000), and teaches at California State University, Northridge.