The New Writing Series hosts Kate Bernheimer, Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona, who specializes in teaching creative writing and courses on transnational fairy tales and fairy-tale aesthetics.
Kate is the author of a novel trilogy and the story collections Horse, Flower, Bird and How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales and the editor of four anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award winning and bestselling My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales. Her recent novella, Office at Night, co-authored with Laird Hunt, was a finalist for the 2015 Shirley Jackson Awards. Her nonfiction has appeared such places as The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, Marvels & Tales: The Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, and The New York Times. With her brother, Andrew Bernheimer (Assistant Professor, Parsons/The New School & principal, Bernheimer Architecture), she is co-editor of Fairy Tale Architecture, an interdisciplinary series published by Places Journal.
Sponsored By: the Department of Literature and the Division of Arts and Humanities in partnership with the UC San Diego Library
Contact:
Brandon Som: (858) 534-3143 or bdsom@ucsd.edu