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when the dust finally settles
A lovely tale about the strength it takes to make change and break rules that shouldn't be rules.
—Read North Carolina Novels, UNC Chapel Hill Library Beautifully imagined and wildly exotic, when the dust finally settles will keep you up nights reading its propulsive story. —Corey Mesler, author of Following Richard Brautigan
Clarence Carter,
speaking from the dead, provides a surprisingly upbeat perspective on
the events unfolding in the community he has not quite left. A refreshingly different Southern story.
—Dr. Margaret D. Bauer, Rives Chair of Southern Literature, East Carolina University Worth reading for the dialogue alone....She's the real deal, and her work deserves wider readership. —Charles Wheeler, Greensboro News and Record News & Upcoming Appearances Senestre on Vacation (Kat writing as Z.K. Burrus) is a ForeWord Book of the Year Award Finalist. ForeWord Finalist List - Mystery July 9-19, 2012 Oklahoma City University Red Earth Low-Residency MFA Program
Red Earth MFA Program
October 14, 2012 7 p.m. The Federal Bar, North Hollywood, CA Staged reading of new work The New Short Fiction Series Bio An award-winning writer of fiction, drama, nonfiction and poetry, Kat Meads is a native of eastern North Carolina. She holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and a BA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
She has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in
poetry, a California Artist Fellowship in fiction and two Arts
Council Silicon Valley fellowships. Her short stories have won awards from Chelsea and
Inkwell Magazine, her essays from New Letters, Lyra and
Drunken Boat. Her short plays have been produced in Los Angeles, New York
and the Midwest. In 1995, she received the Judith Siegel Pearson Award in
Drama from Wayne State University. She has been an artist-in-residence at the
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, Millay Colony for the Arts,
Blue Mountain Colony, Dorland, and the Montalvo Center for the Arts.
She teaches in Oklahoma City University's low-residency Red Earth MFA program.
Books Senestre on Vacation, writing as Z.K. Burrus (Livingston Press/University of West Alabama) Little Pockets of Alarm (Main Street Rag Publishing Company) The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan (Chiasmus Press) Sleep (Livingston Press/University of West Alabama) Not Waving (Livingston Press/University of West Alabama) The Queendom (Linear Arts Press) Born Southern and Restless (Duquesne University Press) Filming the Everyday (Lighting Tree Books) Chapbooks Quizzing the Dead (Pudding House Publications) Stress in America (March Street Press) Night Bones (Linear Arts Press) Wayward Women (Illinois Writers Inc.) Anthology Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience (OV Books) Co-edited with Cris Mazza, Gina Frangello and Stacy Bierlein Quick Reads Online Relativism: The Size of the Tsar in Vegas CiCi Gets Drunker on Airplanes How to Feed Chickens - A Fable On Reading and Rereading The Mind of The South in No Place Southern CONTACT contact@katmeads.com |
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