Kate Bernheimer is an American fairy-tale writer, scholar and editor.[1]
Kate Bernheimer's first two novels, The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold (2001) and The Complete Tales of Merry Gold (2006), were published by Fiction Collective 2.[2] Amongst her other work, her short-story collection Horse, Flower, Bird was published in Fall 2010 by Coffee House Press. Her other recent book, My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales also was published in Fall 2010 by Penguin Books. She is also the author of an acclaimed book for children, The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum, chosen as a best picture book of the year by Publishers Weekly in 2008.
Bernheimer is founder and editor of the journal Fairy Tale Review,[3] as well as a number of fairy-tale anthologies, including Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (Doubleday, 2002)[4] and Brothers and Beasts (Wayne State University Press, 2007).
She has a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from the University of Arizona.[5]