Faculty & Staff : Kate Bernheimer

Kate Bernheimer is the author of two novels based on German, Russian and Yiddish fairy tales, The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold (FC2, 2001) and The Complete Tales of Merry Gold (FC2, 2006), editor of a collection of essays, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (Anchor/Doubleday 1998, exp. 2nd ed. Anchor/Vintage 2002). She earned her BA from Wesleyan University and her MFA from the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her forthcoming books include Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales (Wayne State University Press, 2007), and The Girl in the Castle inside the Museum, a children's book (Random House, 2008). She is also editor of the literary journal Fairy Tale Review.

Books Authored

The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold, FC2, 2001. (novel)

The Complete Tales of Merry Gold, FC2, 2006. (novel)

Books edited

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales, Anchor Books/Doubleday/Vintage, 1st ed.1998 & 2nd. exp. ed. 2002.

Selected Stories in Books, Journals, and Online

"A Cageling Tale." Filter: A Literary Journal, 2006

"A Star Wars Tale." A Galaxy Not So Far Away, ed. Glenn Kenny, Holt 2003.

"A Petting Zoo Tale." 3rd bed (2002) and Born Magazine

"A Doll's Tale." Radical Society (2003)

"Ketzia in the Burlap Sack." 5_Trope.

"The Saltmarsh Tale of Lies." Paragraph (1997).

Essays

"Plankland Rules." In Rules of Thumb, ed. Michael Martone, Writer's Digest Books, 2006

"This Rapturous Form." In Marvels & Tales: The Journal of Fairy Tale Studies. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005

"Corpus: On Ann Hamilton." In Marvels and Tales: The Journal of Fairy Tale Studies. Detroit:Wayne State University Press, 2005

"Other Women." In The Friend Who Got Away, ed. Jenny Offill and Ellissa Schappell. New York: Doubleday Books, 2005

"Dust and Tales and Time." Poetry Magazine (2005).

"Telling Tales." Bookforum, (1998).

Selected Appearances

"Retelling Little Red et al." Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2004.

Awards

Finalist, Oregon Book Award, 2001.

Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, Artists Grant, 1996.

George Bennett Fellowship in Creative Writing, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1994.

Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist Award, 1992