Writing
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Fiction:
"Well Behaved" - Antioch Review, Apr. 2018 "Animal Rhetoric" - Prairie Schooner, Oct. 2017 Lawrence Foundation Award for best story published in 2017 "Runway" - Alaska Quarterly Review, Sep. 2017 "Distinguished Story" in Best American Short Stories 2018 "Another Washington" - Wigleaf, Feb. 2017 "Blood Oath" - Knee Jerk Magazine, Apr. 2016 "Cashmere" - Necessary Fiction, Feb. 2016 "The 12 Steps (Of Making Amends to a Dog)" - SmokeLong Quarterly, Aug. 2015 "Variations on a Dying Swan" - Women Arts Quarterly 4.1, Jan. 2014 "The Pygmy Queen" - Nimrod Awards 33, 2011 Honorable Mention for the Henfield Prize and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction |
Nonfiction:
"Building miniature worlds with my daughter through the pandemic" - Vox, Mar. 2021 "Worshippers" (excerpt) - Michigan Quarterly Review, Jan. 2019 "'Allahu akbar' isn't a scary phrase, but terrorism has warped the way we hear Arabic" - The Washington Post, Apr. 2016 (Syndicated in the Chicago Tribune, Press Democrat, and other places.) Awards & Accolades: Distinguished Story - Best American Short Stories 2018 Lawrence Foundation Award - Prairie Schooner 2017 Steinbeck Fellowship - San Jose State University 2017-18 Poe/Faulkner Fellowship - University of Virginia 2009-2011 Caitlin Kindervatter-Clark "balances humor and grief the way a skilled bartender mixes a drink; she makes the complex look easy. '12 Steps' is funny without being trivial, sad but not overwhelmingly so, intelligent but not pretentious, casually pretty (a tough trick to pull off). Her story could easily fall into despair, but the hope is too strong. The writing is too strong." - E.A. Aymar on SmokeLong Quarterly |