Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of the novel "Funerals for Horses" (Russian Hill Press 1997), a collection of short fiction, "Earthquake Weather" (Russian Hill Press 1998), the novels "Pay it Forward" (Simon & Schuster Feb. 2000), "Electric God" (Simon & Schuster Nov. 2000), and "Walter's Purple Heart" (Simon & Schuster 2002).
Her young adult novel "Becoming Chloe" was released March 28, 2006 from Knopf. A second YA novel, "The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance" is forthcoming from Knopf in Spring '07. Her novel "Love in the Present Tense" was released May 30, 2006 from Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press.
The book "Pay It Forward" has been translated into twenty languages for publication in more than thirty countries, and was chosen among the Best Books for Young Adults 2001 by the American Library Association. The mass market paperback was released in October 2000 by Pocket Books and quickly became a national bestseller. "Pay It Forward" the movie (Warner Brothers) is in release, and Variety has announced that Nicolas Cage has signed on to play Hayden Reese in the film adaptation of "Electric God."
More than 45 of her short stories have been published in Hayden's Ferry Review, Pearl, South Dakota Review, Vignette, The Amherst Review, Descant, The Crescent Review, The Laurel Review, Literal Latte, River Styx, High Plains Literary Review, Bellingham Review, Red Cedar Review, The Antioch Review, Puerto del Sol, Quarterly West, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Manoa, New Letters, Ploughsharse, Glimmer Train, and many other journals, and in the anthologies "Santa Barbara Stories" (John Daniel & Co., 1998) and "California Shorts" (Heyday Books, 1999). Her story 'Bloodlines' was reprinted in the bestselling anthology "Dog Is My Co-Pilot" (Crown, 2003).
Two of her stories have been honored in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, 'Love is Always Running Away' in 1994 and 'Dante' in 1996. Her story 'Red Texas Sky' was nominated for Best American Short Stories, the O'Henry Award, and a Pushcart Prize, and her story 'Wednesday Man' was also nominated for Pushcart Prize XXII. She had six stories in consideration for Pushcart Prize XXIV: 'The Last Younger Man,' nominated by Eureka Literary Magazine; 'Five Singing Gardeners and One Dead Stranger,' nominated by Literal Latte; and four stories from "Earthquake Weather," nominated by Russian Hill Press.
She received second place in the 1997 Bellingham Review Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction for 'Breakage.' Her story 'Castration Humor' was cited as one of the 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 1998 in "Best American Short Stories 1999." Her story 'Requiem for a Flamer' was nominated for Pushcart Prize XXVI by Quarterly West. Her stories 'Bloodlines' and 'The Man Who Found You in the Woods' were cited as two of the 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2001 in "Best American Short Stories 2002."
She has served on the 1998 fiction fellowship panel of the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and on the editorial staff of the Santa Barbara Review. She teaches fiction workshops at the Central Coast Writers' Conference, the Santa Barbara Writers Conference and the La Jolla Writers Conference. She is fiction editor of Central Coast Magazine, and currently writes full-time.
Catherine Ryan Hyde is founder and president of the Pay It Forward Foundation. She donates a portion of her "Pay It Forward" paperback royalties and Foundation-related speaking honoraria to support Foundation activities.
