Welcome

Welcome to my website! Here I hope to keep you informed of my upcoming appearances, new publications, and thoughts about our world.

Subscribe to my blog and newsletter, "The Clueless Eater," to follow my explorations of food, health, and sustainablility.

Take a minute to sit and listen to a story chair. These are real chairs in the lobby of Jack Straw Studios in Seattle that will tell you a story if you sit down! Here, if you click on the chair, you can listen to me tell you a story, along with many other writers and musicians in Tina Hoggatt's terrific program.

Also, please note that my e-book of Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist is now on sale for $3.99. Such a bargain.

Enjoy!


On YouTube with the Bushwick Book Club
Our Friends, the Bees
E-mail Kathleen
Facebook me
All my books in paper and Mrs. Vargas for Kobo


Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist for Kindle




The Latino Author
My review of El Iluminado by Ilan Stavans
2012 Jack Straw Writers Program
An interview with Shawn Wong
Librotraficante
Bringing books to the people.
Seattle 7 Writers
Interview with Kristin Suratt
Island Treasure
Think Outloud with Emily Harris
Tales of Terror on Weekend America
Seattle Woman Magazine
Publishers Weekly
Signed and collectible editions of my books y libros en español

Selected Works

Anthologies
From the early literature of the Americas to the late 20th Century
Creative Nonfiction
Essays on Family and Writing

“The Desert Remembers My Name makes an important contribution to discussions of ethnicity, identity, and the literature of place.”
–Bloomsbury Review
Fiction
"...a mesmerizing tale... the author explores the fascinating confusions and contradictions plaguing a culture precariously poised between tradition and modernization."
–Booklist
"She never forgot the power of storytelling as testimony."
–The Utne Reader
"Kathleen Alcalá's Spirits of the Ordinary is an enthralling book..."
–Paul Yamazaki, City Lights Books

"This book entered my dreams."
–Alberto Rios
Short Fiction
"Thoroughly satisfying."
–The New York Times Book Review

"By turns touching, entertaining, and surprising, and uniquely her own."
–Publishers Weekly

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