WRITING RESUME: SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS

 

• Winner. Artist’s Studio Writing Contest for Fiction, “El Gato,” Aurora CO 2019
• Pushcart Prize Nominee for Short Story “El Gato,” 2019
• Published The Book of John (Novel) O Books 2010
• Winner, ForeWord Magazine Editor’s Choice Prize for Fiction The Basket Maker, 2004
• Nominated for a Mountains and Plains Bookseller Award for 2005 (Adult Fiction category for The Basket Maker)
• Heekin Award semi-finalist, The Basket Maker 2004.
• Published The Basket Maker (novel) GreyCore Press, 2004.
• Winner, Colorado Individual Artist Fellowship, “The Return of Birds” (essay) 2003
• Finalist, “The Return of Birds,” (essay). Salem Women Writer’s Contest, Spring 2003.
• MFA, Creative Writing (Fiction), Vermont College, Montpelier, VT January 2001.
• Writing Program Instructor, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO 1999-2007.
• Published stories, essays, and poems in The Louisville Review, Passages North, South Dakota Review, Fish Drum and many other national publications.
• Featured Poet, Newsletter Inago (2002) and Bellowing Ark (1997).
• Published Geographies of the Heart (poems), Blue Heron Press, 1997.

Curriculum Vitae — Creative Writing

 

EDUCATION

M.S.W. (2008-2011). New Mexico Highlands University, Farmington NM. GPA: 4.0.

M.F.A. (1999-2001) Vermont College of the Fine Arts, Montpelier, Vermont.

Emphasis: Fiction. Critical Thesis: “Landscape as Partner, Habitat, and Character: Writing from a Western Nativist
Sensibility.” Creative Thesis: The Basket Maker (a novel of 65,000 words).

Teaching
Certificate (1994-1996). University of New Mexico, Secondary Education in Language Arts and Social Studies. GPA: 4.0.

M.A. (1985-1987), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Major Field: Anthropology. Emphasis:
Archeology. Graduated With Distinction.

B.A. (1980-1984), The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Major field: Anthropology. G.P.A.: 3.4.

 

PROFESSIONAL WRITING ACTIVITIES AND PUBLICATIONS

 

Creative Writing Publications

Books

Niles, Kate. The Book of John (novel). O Books: Ripley Hants, UK 2010.

Niles, Kate. The BasketMaker (novel). GreyCore Press: Pine Bush, NY. 2004.

Niles, Kate Fuller. Geographies of the Heart (poems). Blue Heron Press: Albuquerque. 1997.

Essays

Niles, Kate. The Art of Reading with your Ears. In The Art of Touch, Schweighardt and Des Pres, Eds.   Athens: Georgia UP, 2023.

“Greens (Or)…The Story of a Marriage. Edible Southwest Colorado December 2019.

“Bears Ears, Bluff Fort, and Education.” Four Corners Free Press May 2017 V. 14 No. 9.

“Maria’s Bookshop,” in My Bookstore New York: Black Dog and Leventhal 2012.

“The Mad Tea Party.” Four Corners Free Press December 2010 V. 8 No. 4

“With the Kids.” Monthly column, Inside/Outside Magazine. February/March 2005 – 2008.

“Starving Psychopaths: Five Myths about the Artistic Life.” Arts Perspective Sept/Oct 2004.

Book Review of Ken Wright’s Why I’m Against It All. Inside/Outside Magazine: June 2003.

“Skiing with the Oldsters.” Writers on the Range, a subscription news Service ofHigh Counto News. Paonia: High Country News. March/April 2003.

“The Retum of Birds.” Passages North, Spring 2003.

“Doing It Right (and Western) at the Olympics.” Writers on the Range, a subscription news service of High Country News. Paonia: High Country News. February 2002.

“The View From Here.” Write On Four Comers, a broadcast program of KSJE public radio, Farmington, NM. Recorded December 19, 2001; aired Februrary 2002.

“Of Males and Motorcycles: A Review ofthe Iron Horse Harley Davidson Motorcycle Classic.” Mountain Gazette 83. Montezuma: Mountain Gazette Publishing Co. November 2001. 49-50.

“The Rut and the Strut — Of Males and Motorcycles.” Writers on the Range, a subscription news service of High County News. Paonia: High Country News. September 2001.

“Don’t Bury Our Link to the Ancient Past.” Writers on the Range, a subscription news service ofHigh Country News. Paonia: High Country News. July 2001.

Fuller, Kate. “Back Dirt.” A monthly Editor’s Column, UN’Anthropology Newsletter.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Anthropology Department. 1986-1987.

 

Short Stories

 

Niles, Kate.

“Recapture.” www.evokelit.com. Spring 2022.

“El Gato.” Progenitor Art and Literary Journal. V. LIV. 2019.

“Voice of Reason.”
In The Way We Knew It: Fiction from the First Twenty-five Years of the MFA
in Writing Program at Vermont College (1981-2006). Noel, C’, McCarty, S. and K. Harding, Eds. Montpelier: Vermont College. 2006.

“Cattleman.” The Acorn, #36 (Fall 2002). Also aired on Write on Four Corners, a broadcast production of
KSJE public radio, Farmington, NM. April 24, 2002.

“Boy Next Door.” The Louisville Review. (Spring 2002).

“The Garden.” Hurricane Alice: A Feminist Quarterly. Vol. 13:2/3,  December 1998. 16-18.

“River.” Words ofWisdom. Vol.17, No.2. Summer 1997. 74-82.

Fuller, Kate.

“The Journey.” Leviathan Vol. 8, No. 3. May 1982. 26-29.

 

Poetry

 

Niles, Kate.

“Writing Room after Reading Basho,” “Triptych,” The Louisville Review. Spring 2021

“Only We,” Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. Winter 2017 v.28:4.

“Rivers,” Honorable Mention, Inside/Outside Magazine poetry contest, Sept/Oct. 2003

“Slaves in the Family,” “Sleeping with my Husband,” “Leaving

Albuquerque,” “Out Hiking,” “Plant,” “Ordeal of the Mummy,” “Crossing The 101<,” and “Dark” (Featured Poet) Newsletter Inago February 2002.

“Voice.” Willow Street. Vol. 1. No. 5. March 2000. 4.

“The Old Anthropologist.” Willow Street Vol. l, No. 3. January 2000. 7.

“Obsidian.” Potato Eyes. Vol. 20. December 1999. 8.

“Chef.” Willow Street. Vol. 1, No.2. November 1999. 3.

“In Your Bones.” Willow Street. vol. 1, No. 1. October 1999. 2.

“For the Black Point Navajos.” Fish Drum. Vol. 13. Summer 1998. 25.

“Trickster.” South Dakota Review. Vol. 35, No.2. Summer 1997. 132.

“My Mother Sees Cary Grant,” “Among the Cattails,” “What Happened in Oregon,” “In Your Bones,” “Cherry Blossoms,” and “Oracle Bones,” Bellowing Ark (FeaturedPoet) vol. 13, No. 3. May/June 1997. 12.

Fuller, Kate.

“Graves at Aspen.” Trestle Creek Review. No. 14. 1996. 14.

“Downhill,” and “Prewriting” Bellowing Ark Vol. 12, No.2. March/April 1996. 15.

“Cathedrals at Conquest,” “Rio Usamacinta,” “People in America,” “White Man’s Conceit.” San Fernando Poetry Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 4. October 1995. 57-59.

“Zuni Goodbye.” Bellowing Ark Vol. 10, No. 6. November/December 1994. 4.

“Sandhill Cranes,” and “After Dinner.” Bellowing Ark. Vol. 8, No. 2. March/ April 1992. 13; fly leaf.

“State of Grace,” and “Technology Gap (Up Hopi Way).” Conceptions Southwest. spring 1988. 81-82.

“Survival Techniques,” and “Peter’s Guitar.” Leviathan. October 1982. 16, 19.

“Outside My Window in Colorado.” Spring Harvest. Sprin 1980. 57.

 

Honors

 

Winner, Artist’s Studio Writing Contest, for “El Gato” (short story). Aurora, Colorado. 2019.

Nominee, Pushcart Prize, for “El Gato.” 2019.

Winner Editor’s Choice Award for Fiction, for The Basket Maker, ForeWord Magazine, 2004.

Nominee, Mountains and Plains Bookseller Award, Adult Fiction for The Basket Maker, 2005.

Honorable Mention, “Rivers” (poem), Inside/Outside Magazine, Sept/Oct 2003.

Winner, Colorado Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, for “The Return of Birds” (creative non-fiction category) March 2003.

Finalist (creative noni-fiction), “The Return of Birds,”Salem Women Writer’s Contest, Spring 2003.

Featured Poet, Newsletter Inago, February 2002.

Finalist,The Basket Maker (novel), Heekin Group Foundation Awards for novel-in Progress (called The Snow Geese at the time), May 1999.

Featured Poet, Bellowing Ark, May/June 1997.

One of seven winners “In New Mexico” (essay), , Crosswinds Magazine, Spring 1993.

Second prize “Outside My Window in Colorado” (poem), California Polytechnic University, Pomona, contest for high school students.

 

Workshops

 

“The Creative Habit,” one-credit Honors Class offered to Fort Lewis College students, Winter trimester 2005.

“Order Out of Chaos: Writing to Save Our Lives.” Prose workshop for sexual assault survivors, Durango, CO. April 6, 2005. Sponsored by the Sexual Assault Services Organization ofDurango.

“Writing toward Our Stories, Ourselves.” Prose workshop for the Durango chapter ofthe American Association ofUniversity Women  (AAUW), March 6, 2005.

Women’s Writing Workshop, WomenFest (sponsored by the Durango Women’s Resource Center), November 2004. In conjunction with Kathleen May and Molly Anders-Childress.

“Walking Words” Fiction Workshop, Telluride, CO, October 9, 2004. Sponsored by the Telluride Writer’s Guild and Ah-Ha School of the Arts.

Poetry and Fiction Workshops, Durango Arts Center, 1998-1999.

 

Readings and Signings

 

KDUR, Interview, Fort Lewis College Community Radio, Spring 2006

Featured Author, American Association ofUniversity Women, Durango Chapter. March 5, 2004, Fort Lewis College. Reading and talk for annual scholarship fundraiser.

Signing, Grand Junction Barnes and Noble Holiday Book Fair, December 4, 2004.

Signing, Borders Books and Music, Albuquerque, NM. November 20, 2004.

Signing, Borders Books and Music, Santa Fe, NM. November 19, 2004.

Reading/signing at Collected Works, Santa Fe, NM, November 18, 2004. Sponsored by The Southwest Literary Center/Recursos.

Signing, Buckskin Booksellers, Ouray, CO. October 23, 2004.

Walking Words,” Telluride, CO, October 8, 2004. One ofthree authors chosen to read at various dining stops for Telluride’s annual festival.

Reading/signing at The King’s     Salt Lake City, Utah, October 1, 2004.

Reading/signing at Montclair Plaza Borders. August 14, 2004.

Signing, Bames and Noble, Rancho Cucamonga, CA. August 13, 2004.

Reading/signing at Huntley Bookstore ofthe Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA. August 12, 2004.

Reading and reception at Main Book Store, Cortez, CO. July 22, 2004.

Reading and discussion, Left Hand Bookstore, Boulder, CO. July 7, 2004.

Reading/signing at the Tattered Cover, Cherry Creek, Denver, CO. July 6, 2004.

Signing, Hastings Books and Music, Grand Junction, CO. June 25, 2004.

Signing, Borders Books and Music, Cincinnati, OH. June 20, 2004.

Signing and book talk, Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Bridgewater, NJ. June 17, 2004.

Reading and discussion at The Yoga Darshana Center, West Babylon, NY. June June 16, 2004.

Salon reception and reading, Goldmith Residence, New York, New York. June 14, 2004.

Reading/signing, Olsson’s Books and Music, Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. June 12, 2004.

Reading/signing, Dolores Bookstore and Coffee House, Dolores, CO. June 5, 2004.

Reading/signing, Maria’s Bookshop, Durango, CO. May 25, 2004.

Walking Words,” Telluride, CO, October 8, 2004. One of three authors chosen to read at various dining stops for Telluride’s annual festival.

Featured Reader, National Poetry Month, Maria’s Bookshop, Durango, Colorado, April 2000.

Various readings and signings for poetry book (Geographies of the Heart) in the Albuquerque area, 1997-1998.

 

Radio and Television Interviews

 

“Living on Earth,” NPR syndicated radio show, aired January 15, 2005.

Live Interview, KOB-TV, Channel 4 (NBC), Noon news show, November 19, 2004.

Taped Inteniew, Connie Martinson Talks Books, Van Nuys, CA. August 16, 2004.

Taped Interview with Nancy Perlman for local public radio and ecology newsletter, Los Angeles, CA. August 15, 2004.

Taped Interview, KENW TV/FM (NPR), Don criss, Portales, NM. July 12, 2004.

“Straight to the Heart” with Ron Chapman, KUNM (NPR), Albuquerque, NM. July I l, 2004. Frank, live discussion of sexual abuse and assault with a local therapist as well as the Albuquerque Rape Crisis Center director.

Taped Interview with Lee Austin, Utah Public Radio, July 9, 2004. Taped Interview, Women’s Voices Radio, WAER-FM Syracuse, NY.
July 9, 2004.

“Live Radio from Penny Lane,” Live Interview, KGNU, Boulder, CO. July 7, 2004.

Live Interview, KJTC-TV Channel 8 (ABC? CHECK), Grand Junction. Morning News Show. June 25, 2004.

Live Interview, 940 AM Talk Radio (ABC – CHECK OLD EMAILS FOR ALL OF IHS). Grand Junctiom CO. June 25, 2004.

“Making Peace with the Planet,” Taped Interview, WKRC-TV Cincinnati. June 19, 2004.

Taped Interview, Long Island Public Radio. June 15, 2004.

Live Interview, WBOC- TV, Channel 16, Salisbury, Maryland. Morning show. June 16, 2004.

Taped Interview, WGTW-TV, Channel 48, Philadelphia, PA. June 11, 2004.

Taped Interview, CNN-NJ, June 9, 2004.

Live Interview, CFUV (radio), Women’s Collective radio show, Victoria, B.C. June 2, 2004.

Live Interview, KDUR, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO. May 25, 2004.

GET NFO ON RADIO STATION FOR   WONEN’S ROOM.

Taped Interview, KSJE public radio, Farmington, NM. May 3, 2004.

“The Mom Squad,” Live Interview, KSJE public radio, Cortez, CO. May 2, 2004.

“The View From Here” (essay). Write On Four Comers, a broadcast program of KSJE public radio, Farmington, NM. Recorded December 19, 2001; aired Februrary 2002.

“Cattleman” (short story). Write on Four Corners, a broadcast production ofKSJE public radio, Farmington, NM. April 24, 2002.

 

Newspaper and Online Reviews and Interviews

Newspapers

Rocky Mountain News

Deseret News

Bloomsbury Review

The Claremont Courier

The San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Crosswinds, an Albuquerque Independent weekly

High Country News

The Durango Herald

Four Corners Free Press

The Cortez Journal

Online Publications

Allreaders.com

Roundtablereviews.com

Quietmountainessays.org

Bookideas.com

Curledup.com

Yetanotherbookreview.com

Indolink.com

Kirkus Reviews

Bookideas.com

Midwestbookreview.com

Nightsandweekends.com

Harnikbk.com

Theroseandthomezine.com

Blether.com/reviews Lalitamba.com

 

Other writing-related activities

Free Lance Editor. Copy and content editor for academic anthropologists. 2002-2003.

Contributing Editor (poetry), Hunger Mountain literary review, Vermont College, Winter 2002/Spring 2003.

“Annie Get Your Gun: Why Annie Proulx’s Wyoming Stories Don’t Ring True.” Graduating Lecture, Vermont College NfFA Progam, January 2001.

“Landscape as Habitat, Partner, and Character: Writing from a Western Nativist Sensibility.” Lecture given to Leadership Montezuma, a county leadership program, Cortez, Colorado, December 2000.

Editor, UNM Anthropolou Newsletter. Monthly newsletter for the University ofNew Mexico Anthropology Department, Albuquerque, NM. 1986-87.

Associate News Editor, The Colorado College Catalyst, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Spring 1982.

Editorial Intern, In These Times, Chicago, Illinois, Fall 1981.