Kathleen Alcala

Kathleen Alcalá is a writer whose trilogy on nineteenth century Mexico was published by Chronicle Books. Her work has received the Western States Book Award, the Governor's Writers Award, a Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Award, and a Washington State Book Award. A co-founder and contributing editor to The Raven Chronicles, Kathleen recently served on the board of Richard Hugo House and teaches Creative Writing in the Low Residency MFA Program on Whidbey Island.

She is the recipient of an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Award for work on her new book, Cities of Gold. Her work was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Her nonfiction has been produced for public radio, and she co-wrote, with director Olga Sanchez, a play based on her novel, Spirits of the Ordinary that was produced by The Miracle Theatre of Portland, Oregon.

Kathleen is the author of a short story collection, Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist, and three novels: Spirits of the Ordinary, The Flower in the Skull,, and Treasures in Heaven. Her collection of essays, The Desert Remembers My Name is now available from the University of Arizona Press.

Her work is included in Inlandia, a recent anthology of writings about inland California edited by Gayle Watawa and published by Heyday Books, and the forthcoming Latinos in Lotusland, edited by Dan Olivas.

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