Works

Kate Bernheimer's first two novels, The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold (2001) and The Complete Tales of Merry Gold (2006), were published by Fiction Collective 2. Amongst her other work, her short-story collection Horse, Flower, Bird was published in Fall 2010 by Coffee House Press. Her other recent book, My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales also was published in Fall 2010 by Penguin Books

Penguin Books

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. She is also the author of an acclaimed book for children, The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum, chosen as a best picture book of the year by Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly

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 in 2008.

Bernheimer is founder and editor of the journal Fairy Tale Review, as well as a number of fairy-tale anthologies, including Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (Doubleday, 2002) and Brothers and Beasts (Wayne State University Press

Wayne State University Press

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, 2007).

She has a BA from Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

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 and an MFA from the University of Arizona

University of Arizona

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.

External links

• UL Announces Writer-In-Residence Kate Bernheimer University of Louisiana (08/05/2009), Retrieved 23 August 2010