Kate Gale
Encyclopedia
Life
Kate Gale was born in Binghamton, New YorkBinghamton, New York
Binghamton is a city in the Southern Tier of New York in the United States. It is near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers...
to Stephen Gale and Evadene Swanson. She graduated with a B.A. in English from Arizona State University
Arizona State University
Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...
. She received an M.A. in English with a creative writing emphasis from California State University Northridge in 1990 and a Ph.D. in English from Claremont Graduate University
Claremont Graduate University
Claremont Graduate University is a private, all-graduate research university located in Claremont, California, a city east of downtown Los Angeles...
in 2003.
Career
Gale, along with her husband Mark E. Cull, founded Red Hen PressRed Hen Press
Red Hen Press is an American non-profit press specializing in the publication of literary fiction and poetry located in Pasadena, California. Founded by Kate Gale, the mission of Red Hen Press is to discover, publish, and promote works of literary excellence that have been overlooked by mainstream...
in 1994. Gale is the managing editor of Red Hen Press; the editor of the Los Angeles Reviewhttp://www.redhen.org/la_review.asp, which is also part of Red Hen Press; and the president of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Composers Forum
American Composers Forum
The American Composers Forum is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to the promotion and assistance of American composers and their music. It was founded in 1973 as the Minnesota Composers Forum and is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States...
. She was the 2005-2006 president of PEN USA
PEN American Center
PEN American Center , founded in 1922 and based in New York City, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship. The Center has a membership of 3,300 writers, editors, and translators...
and serves on the board of the A Room of Her Own Foundationhttp://aroomofherownfoundation.org/.
Works
Gale’s work began with Blue Air, a book of poetry published by Garden Street Press, San Luis Obispo. She published three collections of poetry with Red Hen Press: Where Crows and Men Collide, Selling the Hammock, and Fishers of Men. Mating Season was published by Tupelo Press in 2004. She has also written the librettos to two operas. Rio de Sangre, with composer Don Davis, was showcased at Walt Disney Concert HallWalt Disney Concert Hall
The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, California is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, 1st and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the...
in 2005, by the New York City Opera VOX in May 2007 and had its world premiere on October 22, 2010 with the Florentine Opera Company in Milwaukee. Paradises Lost, co-written with Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction...
with composer Stephen Taylor, was showcased at the New York City Opera VOX in 2006.
Awards
- Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award
- Claremont Graduate University Fellowship
- Mitchell Lathrop Fellowship
Public Speaking
Kate speaks widely on independent publishing and how writers can become published authors.Librettos
- Rio de Sangre with composer Don Davis
- Paradises Lost with Ursula K. Le Guin and composer Stephen Andrew Taylor
- Kindred adapted from the novel by Octavia Butler with composer Billy Childs
- Inner Circle adapted from the novel by T. C. Boyle with composer Daniel Felsenfeld