Catherine Brady

A creative writer, Catherine Brady worked on a series of short stories at the Mesa Refuge aiming to uncover “what we discover when we shed our social cultural selves and step into the woods.” Her work has appeared in American Fiction, The Kenyon Review and The Next Parish Over: A Collection of Irish American Writing.

Catherine’s short story collection The Mechanics of Falling & Other Stories was published in 2009. Her second collection, Curled in the Bed of Love, was the co-winner of the 2002 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and a finalist for the 2003 Binghamton John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her first collection of short stories, The End of the Class War, was a finalist for the 2000 Western States Book Award in Fiction.

Catherine’s stories have been included in Best American Short Stories 2004 and numerous anthologies and journals including Missouri Review, Ontario Review, Cimarron Review, Kenyon Review and Redbook, and in anthologies, including Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Loving a Child with Special Needs, I Know Some Things: Stories about Childhood by Contemporary Writers and The Next Parish Over: A Collection of Irish American Writing. A past winner of the Redbook Young Writers Award, Catherine is the recipient of the 2001 Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Prize and the Brenda Ueland Prose Prize.

She is also the author of a biography of a molecular biologist, Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA. Her critical essays on the craft of fiction have appeared in the Writer’s Chronicle.

Catherine received an MA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Hollins College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts. She was elected to the board of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs in 2005 and served as Vice-President (2006) and President (2007). She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.

Read more about Catherine and her work at http://www.catherinebradyauthor.com.