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Katharine Haake (she/her) is a fourth generation Californian with a deep connection to the land, the people, and the history of this place. Her recent postworld fable, What Happened Was (2024) inaugurates a new climate change fiction series from 11:11 Press, Nothing Exists Alone. Her forthcoming essay collection, The Heaviness of Ghosts, won the inaugural Wolfson Prose Prize. Her other books include an eco-dystopian science fiction novel, The Time of Quarantine; a hybrid California prose lyric, That Water, Those Rocks; and three collections of stories. Haake’s writing has appeared widely in literary journals and been recognized as distinguished by Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays, among others. A text/image diptych she collaborated on with artist, Lisa Bloomfield, is included in Bloomfield’s portfolio in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Haake was lead editor on a 2021 anthology, What Falls Away Is Always: Writers Over 60 on Writing and Death. She is a long-time contributor to creative writing scholarship and the author of the foundational What Our Speech Disrupts: Feminism and Creative Writing Studies. Haake remains grateful to have benefitted from the generosity of writing residencies over the years, most recently at Djerassi’s Scientific Delirium Madness session, co-sponsored by Leonardo, as well from a Master Artist’s Fellowship from the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles. She is a professor emerita at California State University, Northridge, and lives in Los Angeles.