Kathryn Trueblood teaches courses in the Literature of War and Homecoming at Western Washington University where she also founded “Stories Deployed: The Veterans Chronicles,” a storytelling performance that brings together civilians and vets. She also teaches therapeutic writing workshops for The Red Badge Project of Seattle. 

Trueblood’s novel, The Baby Lottery, was a Book Sense Pick in 2007, and her story collection, The Sperm Donor’s Daughter, received a Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize in 2000. She was awarded the 2013 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, judged by Jane Smiley and sponsored by the Bellevue Literary Review. In 2011, she won the Red Hen Press Short Story Award and was selected for a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the oldest feminist funding agency in the U.S. Trueblood’s stories and articles have been published in Poets & Writers Magazine, the Bellevue Literary Review, The Los Angeles Review, Glimmer Train, The Seattle Review, Zyzzyva, and others. A professor of English at Western Washington University, she lives in Bellingham, Washington. You can learn more about her here: Kathryn.Trueblood@wwu.edu

Website: http://KathrynTrueblood.com.

Publications

• The Baby Lottery , The Permanent Press (June 2007)
• The Sperm Donor's Daughter , The Permanent Press (April 1998)
• "The No-Tell Hotel" , The Bellevue Literary Review (April 2013)
• "The View from the Bluff: The Port Townsend Writers Conference" , Poets & Writers Magazine (March 2013)
• "Fuck You! Till Next Christmas" , The Los Angeles Review (September 2012)

Awards

• The Goldenberg Prize in Fiction, selected by Jane Smiley(2013)
• The Red Hen Press Short Story Award(2011)
• The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award(2011)
• Book Sense Pick 2007 for The Baby Lottery(2007)

Employment

• Professor of English at Western Washington University (September 2002 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English from U.C. Berkeley (June 1983)
• Certificate in Publishing from Radcliffe Publishing Course (August 1984)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing - Fiction from University of Washington (December 1990)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction