Kate Wheeler (novelist)

Kate Wheeler (born 1955 Oklahoma) is an American novelist.

Life

She was raised in various parts of South America. She graduated from Rice University, and Stanford University. She was ordained a Buddhist nun in Burma.^[1] She teaches at Southwest Texas State University.^[2] She was a panelist at the Key West Literary Seminar.^[3]

She is married and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Awards

• 1994 Whiting Writers' Award
• 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship ^[4]
• NEA Fellowship

Works

• Not Where I Started From. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1997. ISBN 9780395860328. http://books.google.com/books?id=tklU9_tkQLoC&pg=RA1-PT1&dq=Kate+Wheeler+(novelist)&cd=2#v=onepage&q=Kate%20Wheeler%20(novelist)&f=false. 
• When Mountains Walked. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2001. ISBN 9780618127016. http://books.google.com/books?id=OLWs68aoBXkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Kate+Wheeler+(novelist)&cd=1#v=onepage&q=Kate%20Wheeler%20(novelist)&f=false. 

Editors

• Kate Wheeler, ed (2004). Nixon under the bodhi tree and other works of Buddhist fiction. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 9780861713547. 

Anthologies

• "Contemporary Fiction: Granta's Best of the Young American Novelists " 1996
• C. Michael Curtis, ed (2003). Faith: stories. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9780618378241. 
• William Miller Abrahams, ed (1982). Prize Stories 1982: The O. Henry Awards. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385175630. 
• Robert Stone, Katrina Kenison, ed (1992). The best American short stories. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 9780395593042. 
• Frances Mayes, Jason Wilson, ed (2002). The Best American Travel Writing 2002. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9780618118809. 
• Lucy McCauley, ed (2008). "Cape with a View". The Best Women's Travel Writing 2008: True Stories from Around the World. Travelers' Tales. ISBN 9781932361551. http://books.google.com/books?id=5PzDzEHKMegC&lpg=PA31&dq=Kate%20Wheeler%20(novelist)&lr=&pg=PA21#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

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