Kathleen Alcalá

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Kathleen Alcalá (born 29 August 1954) is the author of a short-story collection and three novels set in the American Southwest and nineteenth-century Mexico. She teaches creative writing at workshops and programs in Washington state and elsewhere, including Seattle University, the University of New Mexico and Richard Hugo House. Alcalá is also a co-founder of and contributing editor to The Raven Chronicles. A play based on her novel, Spirits of the Ordinary, was produced by The Miracle Theatre of Portland, Oregon. She serves on the board of Richard Hugo House and the advisory boards of Con Tinta, Field’s End and the Centrum Writers Conference.

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Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist (Calyx Books)
Spirits of the Ordinary (Chronicle; Harvest Books);
The Flower in the Skull (Chronicle;Harvest Books)
Treasures in Heaven (Chronicle; Northwestern University Press).

Note: Alcalá’s first collection of nonfiction essays, The Skeleton in the Closet–Essays on Family, Writing, and Other Hauntings, is forthcoming from a University Press.