Kathleen Gallagher
Kathleen Gallagher was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2011.
Professional history
From 1990 to 1993, Gallagher held the role of Communications Consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and also a Writing Instructor at the American Institute of Banking in Chicago. Following that, she began working as a business reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.[1]
Journalistic tasks
While Gallagher worked at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, she engaged in various challenging activities. This included: the investigation of a multistate cattle Ponzi scheme operator, traveled by helicopter with professional investors to visit oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and looked into microscopes at a firm selling stem cell-derived heart cells to pharmaceutical companies. She covers investments, life sciences and other emerging, high-growth industries in the Wisconsin area.[2]
Related areas of expertise
In addition to her journalistic career, Gallagher is a senior lecturer at the University of Akron/Wayne College in English. She has written poetry and created collages. For example, her work ‘Bone Collage,’ was posted in the September 2011 Hospital Drive: The literature and humanities journal of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. ‘One Woman,’ is a cover for Pushcart nominee writer Michelle Reale’s book ‘If All They Had Were Their Bodies,’ published by Burning River Press.[3]
Awards
In 2011, through their work at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – together with Mark Johnson, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar, and Alison Sherwood – Gallagher won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for their “lucid examination of an epic effort to use genetic technology to save a 4-year-old boy imperiled by a mysterious disease, told with words, graphics, videos and other images.”[4] The title was: ‘One in a Billion: A Boy’s Life, a Medical Mystery.’[5]
Also in 2011, Gallagher received an Honorable Mention for her piece entitled ‘Flying Objects’ in the Writer’s Digest competition of that year.
Four years earlier, in 2007, she received an Honorable Mention for her piece entitled ‘Cutting Storm’ in the Writer’s Digest competition of that year.[6]
In 2006, she received the first-place award for explanatory reporting in the Inland Press Association contest.
In Issue 15 of the South Coast Poetry Journal, Gallagher received an Honorable Mention for her poetry piece entitled ‘Focal Point’ in the journal judged by writer/poet James Dickey in 2009. Two years later she received an Honorable Mention for her piece ‘Somewhere’ in the National Collage Society’s Postcard Contest.
Nominations
Gallagher reached the finals in the First Grand Tournament event via Writing Knights Press. This led to her first poetry chapbook, ‘I See Things are Falling.’
In December 2012, she was nominated for a Pushcart prize through Writing Knights Press.
Education
Gallagher earned her Bachelors in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MA in English from the University of Illinois.[7] In addition, she studied Creative Writing at Kent State University.
References
- ^ "Kathleen Gallagher Business reporter at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel". LinkedIn. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
- ^ "2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Awards ranging from journalism to fiction to music". Infoplease. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
- ^ "Pulitzer Prize: Updated March 2015". University of Wisconsin--Madison. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
- ^ "Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
- ^ "Kathleen Gallagher". Long Form Archive. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
- ^ "kathleen d. gallagher". Poets & Writers. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
- ^ "Jennifer Egan wins fiction Pulitzer". USA Today. Retrieved 21 May 2015.