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Oct.28.2012
My husband and I were talking about Paris this morning, in bed, which is where it seems most people stereotypically talk about Paris. But I’ve clung to Paris in particular because it is where my husband so...
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Jul.09.2012
Driving up to Silverton today for my job and passed a Suburban with Texas plates. I felt smug and superior, being native and all to mountain driving, mixed as most of us are in Colorado regarding Texas vacationers. I allowed myself the briefest sense of superiority, acknowledged that it felt...
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For Niles, writing is a landscape in itself. She is witness to the sweet and significant details that only a person painfully acquainted with the earth and the convolutions of human relationships might notice. ”
—Craig Childs
About Katharine
I am the author of The Basket Maker, a novel that won Book of the Year Award from ForeWord Magazine (Independent Presses) in 2004. My second novel, The Book of John, was published in 2010. I have also published a book of poetry, Geographies of the Heart. I am...