https://www.kathryn-harlan.com/about daily 0.75 2024-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bf07f73c5035a1c0893e5/210d5fac-a6d1-4357-a26c-97ed8201a17f/kathryn+and+Karen+_65a.jpeg About - The Personal Bio: I’m Kathryn Harlan, though in real life I usually go by Kay. I write genre-bending fiction, usually about queer people, and when I’m not doing that I teach both academic and creative writing. A lot of my writing is about the stories we tell ourselves to understand life, how narratives shape our societies, relationships, and identities, and what happens when those narratives begin to deteriorate or come into conflict with each other. I grew up in Southern California, in a distant suburb of Los Angeles, and received a BA in English from CSU-LA. From there, I moved to Wisconsin for an MFA in fiction from UW-Madison. I graduated in 2020 and taught writing there until 2022, when my short story collection, Fruiting Bodies, was published by WW Norton. Beyond teaching, writing, and reading, I’m very interested in folklore (and have been since I first got my grubby six-year-old hands on an encyclopedia of mythical monsters.) I like books and podcasts about pseudoscience, misinformation, and how these things spread. I knit and embroider enthusiastically but not well. I have a cat named Merricat (yes, after the Shirley Jackson character); she is very beautiful and you can see a picture of her here. The two most popular artists in my iTunes library are The Mountain Goats and Original Broadway Cast. That’s the personal stuff, if you want the professional stuff scroll down for my CV. https://www.kathryn-harlan.com/work daily 0.75 2022-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bf07f73c5035a1c0893e5/1647046784224-ZYGVNMHRJZS7YRBW85NN/9781324021223_300.jpg Work - Fruiting Bodies Available June 7, 2022. This genre-bending debut collection of stories constructs eight eerie worlds full of desire, wisdom, and magic blooming amidst decay. In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the gothic to the uncanny, as it follows characters—mostly queer, mostly women—on the precipice of change. In “The Changeling,” two young cousins wait in dread for a new family member to arrive, convinced that he may be a dangerous supernatural creature. In “Endangered Animals,” Jane prepares to say goodbye to her almost-love while they road-trip across a country irrevocably altered by climate change. In the title story, partners Agnes and Geb feast peacefully on the mushrooms that sprout from Agnes’s body—until an unwanted male guest disturbs their cloistered home. For readers of Carmen Maria Machado and Karen Russell, Fruiting Bodies offers stories about knowledge in a world on the verge of collapse, knowledge that alternately empowers or devastates. Pulling beautifully, brazenly, from a variety of literary traditions, Kathryn Harlan firmly establishes herself as a thrilling new voice in fiction. https://www.kathryn-harlan.com/contact-me daily 0.75 2022-03-16 https://www.kathryn-harlan.com/merricat daily 0.75 2022-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bf07f73c5035a1c0893e5/c6428c7b-ddce-44e3-a7ce-b9872a5444b6/IMG_1387.JPG Merricat The day I adopted her. Look how fucking tiny she is, it's ridiculous. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bf07f73c5035a1c0893e5/23d57fd1-6e6a-4d29-81de-6122d390890c/IMG_1390.JPG Merricat Just a very little ball of fluff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bf07f73c5035a1c0893e5/de36272e-31aa-40dd-a3be-5ca9e7038171/IMG_1447.JPG Merricat I had to give her a bath and she screamed at me the entire time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bf07f73c5035a1c0893e5/84010f9a-ac36-416b-ad9a-164c84be7a9e/IMG_1449.JPG Merricat Sleepy..... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bf07f73c5035a1c0893e5/55c2abbb-4242-423f-8aaa-1085bd731773/IMG_1461.JPG Merricat She's so fucking small, though. Like, look how SMALL she is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bf07f73c5035a1c0893e5/a497e7a8-a7f8-4caa-b343-5b1692489532/IMG_1503.JPG Merricat The lady displays a regal bearing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bf07f73c5035a1c0893e5/7dc2a5b2-0e4c-41aa-a467-71c2b9b09556/IMG_1552.JPG Merricat Wore herself out attacking the snake (and yes it was bigger than her that's not just the camera angle.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bf07f73c5035a1c0893e5/a0333eeb-b40f-4551-b1dd-1707a4b776de/IMG_1576.JPG Merricat The face she makes when she wants to bite my fingers. I didn't train her out of it when she was a baby so now I just live like this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bf07f73c5035a1c0893e5/69d3e070-4d06-41b7-ab76-d8ff96a32c88/IMG_1805.JPG Merricat Ridiculous shape for an animal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bf07f73c5035a1c0893e5/959cd6b2-e1a6-4993-b9e9-7c4f35bc0036/IMG_3961.jpeg Merricat This is the same bed from earlier. She got so BIG. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bf07f73c5035a1c0893e5/2aec1015-da51-4fa4-8f06-6a3eef95a870/IMG_4547.jpeg Merricat Absolute queen of my apartment. https://www.kathryn-harlan.com/home daily 1.0 2024-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bf07f73c5035a1c0893e5/e13f4339-166c-4c98-a2c0-470fb05f2dc7/FruitingBodiesCover.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bf07f73c5035a1c0893e5/1647046784229-LC98HC1XLZCXYMSBZL8A/kathryn+and+Karen+_36a.jpg Home - Make it stand out Photo Credit: Dale Robinette