Kate Wheeler (novelist)

Kate Wheeler (born 1955 Oklahoma) is an American novelist.

Life

She was raised in various parts of South America. She graduated from Rice University, and Stanford University. She was ordained a Buddhist nun in Burma. She teaches at Southwest Texas State University. She was a panelist at the Key West Literary Seminar.

She is married and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Awards

• 1994 Whiting Award
• 1994 NEA Fellowship
• 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

• Not Where I Started From. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1997. ISBN 978-0-395-86032-8.
• When Mountains Walked. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2001. ISBN 978-0-618-12701-6.

Editors

• Kate Wheeler, ed. (2004). Nixon under the bodhi tree and other works of Buddhist fiction. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 978-0-86171-354-7.

Anthologies

• "Contemporary Fiction: Granta's Best of the Young American Novelists " 1996
• C. Michael Curtis, ed. (2003). Faith: stories. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-37824-1.
• William Miller Abrahams, ed. (1982). Prize Stories 1982: The O. Henry Awards. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-17563-0.
• The best American short stories. Houghton Mifflin. 1992. ISBN 978-0-395-59304-2. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
• The Best American Travel Writing 2002. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2002. ISBN 978-0-618-11880-9. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
• Lucy McCauley, ed. (2008). "Cape with a View". The Best Women's Travel Writing 2008: True Stories from Around the World. Travelers' Tales. ISBN 978-1-932361-55-1.

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation