Katherine Vaz

Katherine Vaz is a Portuguese-American writer. She is the current Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University. [cite news |first=Ben A. |last=Black |title=English Department Fills Faculty Spots |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=348225 |work=Harvard Crimson |date=2003-06-02 ]

Biography

Early life and education

Vaz earned a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1977 [cite news |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |title=Promise, Success Mix at UCI Writers' Party |work=Los Angeles Times |date=1988-10-01 |quote=Vaz, a 1977 UC Santa Barbara English major, said... ] and an M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine in 1991. [cite news |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |title=Local Authors' Works to Fill Shelves in 1994 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=1993-12-30 |quote=And out in July: "Saudade," by Katherine Vaz (Class of '91). ]

Career

After earning her bachelor's, Vaz wrote non-fiction and magazine articles. She became an associate professor of English at UC Irvine after completing her MFA and was hired by Harvard in 2003.

Published works

Novels

*"Saudade" (St. Martin’s Press, June 1994)
*"Mariana" (HarperCollins/Flamingo, 1997)

tory collections

*" [http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=34867 Fado & Other Stories] " (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997)
*" [http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Our-Lady-of-the-Artichokes-and-Other-Portuguese-Am,673961.aspxOur Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories] " (University of Nebraska Press, 2008);

hort stories

*"I Can’t Keep Anything Nice in This House" ("Descant", Fort Worth, TX, Fall/Winter 1986)
*"What I Did on My Christmas Vacation" ("Proof Rock", Halifax, VA, Winter 1988)
*"Original Sin" ("Black Ice", Belmont, MA, 1988)
*"A Little Irish Water Music" ("The Sun", March 1988)
*"Sostenuto" ("Kalliope", Jacksonville, FL, February 1988)
*"Fado" ("TriQuarterly", Fall 1989)
*"Cartooning is Dead" ("Primavera", Ann Arbor, MI, 1989)
*"Add Blue to Make White Whiter" ("Other Voices", Summer/Fall 1990)
*"Red Tide" ("Webster Review", Webster Groves, MO, Spring 1991)
*"Still Life" ("The American Voice", Louisville, KY, 1993)
*"Scalings" ("The Gettysburg Review", Spring 1995)
*"The Birth of Water Stories" ("Speak", San Francisco, CA, October 1996)
*"Island Fever" ("Nimrod", Tulsa, OK, Fall/Winter 1996)
*"The Lost Love Letter of a Nun" ("Madame Class Magazine", Milan, Italy, August 1997)
*"Michigan Girl" ("The Iowa Review", December 2000)
*"Utter" ("The Malahat Review", Fall 2000)
*"The Man Who Was Made of Netting" ("Tin House", January 2001)
*"My Family, Posing for Rodin" ("The Antioch Review", Summer 2001)
*"Taking a Stitch in a Dead Man’s Arm" ("BOMB", Winter 2001)
*"Blue Flamingo Looks At Red Water" ("The Sun" May, 2002)
*"The Glass-Eaters" ("Glimmer Train", Fall 2002)
*"Bébé Marie Springs from the Box" ("ACM (Another Chicago Magazine)", Fall 2002)
*"Annette Kellermann Is My Hero" ("The Alaska Quarterly Review", Spring 2003)
*"Pavane for a Dead Princess" ("Kalliope", Spring 2003)
*"the rice artist" ("The Iowa Review", August 2003)
*"Burning Sailor Boy" ("Provincetown Arts", Summer 2003)
*"Our Lady of the Artichokes" ("Pleiades", Fall 2003)
*"The Love Life of an Assistant Animator" ("Glimmer Train", Fall 2003)
*"A Simple Affair" ("Gargoyle Magazine", May 2004)
*"The Knife Longs for the Ruby" ("Ninth Letter", Spring 2004)
*"Our Bones Here Are Waiting for Yours" ("Five Points", 2004)
*"East Bay Grease" ("The Antioch Review", Summer 2004)
*"One Must Speak of Sex in French" ("Confrontation", Fall 2004/Winter 2005)
*"All Riptides Roar with Sand from Opposing Shores" ("Notre Dame Review", Winter 2006)
*"Lisbon Story" ("Harvard Review", Spring 2006)

Non-fiction

*“Songs of the Soul, Songs of the Night,” The New York Times, Sophisticated Traveler Magazine, September 18, 1994
*Signatures of Grace (Dutton, 2000). Essay on Baptism. (In conjunction with Mary Gordon, Andre Dubus, Patricia Hampl, Ron Hansen, Paula Huston, Paul Mariani).
*“Carving the Fruitstones,” for anthology about short fiction, 2004, Greenwood Publications.
*“This Howling,” essay on the Azores/introduction to novel by João de Melo (My World Is Not of This Kingdom, translated from Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa), Aliform Press, 2003.

Children's literature

*“The Kingdom of Melting Glances” short story in A Wolf at the Door (Simon & Schuster, 2000, in fourth printing)
*“A World Painted by Birds” in Green Man anthology (Viking, 2002)
*“My Swan Sister,” title story in Swan Sister and Other Stories (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
*“Your Garnet Eyes,”in anthology Faery Reel, (Viking, 2004)
*“Chamber Music for Animals,” in Coyote Road anthology (Viking, 2006)

Awards

*1993: National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship
*1997: Drue Heinz Literature Prize, " [http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=34867 Fado & Other Stories] " [cite news |title=Within the Lighted City |work=Women's Review of Books |date=1998-03-01 |quote=Katherine Vaz achieves this broader scope in Fado and Other Stories, a first collection that won the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. ]
*2000: Leadership Award/Portuguese-American Leadership Council of the U.S.
*2002: Portuguese-American Women’s Association Woman of the Year Award
*2007: "Prairie Schooner" Book Prize, " [http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Our-Lady-of-the-Artichokes-and-Other-Portuguese-Am,673961.aspxOur Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories] "

References

External links

* [http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~english/people/vaz_profile.htm Katherine Vaz: The Department of English and American Literature and Language]