लेखक: Kathleen Alcala

Kathleen Alcalá is the author of a collection of short stories from Calyx Books, three novels set in Nineteenth Century Mexico from Chronicle Books, and a collection of essays from the University of Arizona Press. Her work has received the Western States Book Award, two Artist Trust Fellowships, and other recognitions. Kathleen teaches creative writing at the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts on Whidbey Island.  She holds degrees from Stanford University, the University of Washington, and the University of New Orleans. Her parents were born in Mexico, and she was born in Compton, California. Bainbridge Island has been her home for the last twenty years.