Kate Niles | Author

Writer’s CV

WRITING RESUME: SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS

 

  • Silver Award, Mystery, Foreword Review Indies Books of the Year, June 2025 forLast Hanging of Angel Martinez.
  • Winner, Zia Award for Best New Mexico Fiction, April 2025, forLast Hanging of Angel Martinez.
  • Publication ofThe Last Hanging of Angel Martinez (novel), University of New Mexico Press, October 2024.
  • Winner. Artist’s Studio Writing Contest for Fiction, “El Gato,” Aurora CO 2019
  • Pushcart Prize Nominee for Short Story “El Gato,” 2019
  • PublishedThe Book of John (Novel)O Books 2010
  • Winner, ForeWord Magazine Editor’s Choice Prize for Fiction (top prize overall) forThe Basket Maker, 2004
  • Nominated for a Mountains and Plains Bookseller Award for 2005 (Adult Fiction category forThe Basket Maker)
  • Heekin Award semi-finalist,The Basket Maker 2004.
  • PublishedThe 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) andBellowing 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 Last Hanging of Angel Martinez. University of New Press: Albuquerque, October 2024.
  • 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. InThe 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,” inMy 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 of High 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 of the 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 of High 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.” InThe 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. Silver Award, Foreword Reviews Best of the Indies, forThe Last Hanging of Angel Martinez, June 2025
  • First Prize, Zia Award for Best New Mexican Fiction, March 2025, forThe Last Hanging of Angel Martinez
  • 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 non-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 of Durango.
  • “Writing toward Our Stories, Ourselves.” Prose workshop for the Durango chapter of the American Association of University 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

  • Signing and reading, Maria’s Bookshop, Durango, CO November 12, 2024
  • Reading, Durango Hot Mamas Book Club, November 13, 2024, Durango CO
  • Reading and Signing, Dolores Public Library, November 15th, 2024, Dolores CO
  • Reading and Signing, sponsored by Books on the Square Bookstore, First Unitarian Church, Providence RI, December 5th, 2024.
  • Reading and Award Luncheon, New Mexico Press Women’s Association, Isleta Pueblo, NM, March 22, 2025
  • Reading and Signing, Associated Writing Programs Conference, Los Angeles CA, March 29th, 2025
  • Reading and signing, Santa Fe Pubic Library, Santa Fe, NM, April 11, 2025.
  • Reading and signing, Jemez Springs Library, Jemez Springs, NM, April 12th, 2025
  • Reading and Signing, Books on the Bosque, Albuquerque, NM, April 13th, 2025.\
  •  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, Barnes and Noble, Rancho Cucamonga, CA. August 13, 2004.
  • Reading/signing at Huntley Bookstore of the 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

  • Interview, KSDJ Dryland Radio, Cortez CO, aired Sunday November 11, 2024
  • “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 Junction 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 MFA 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 Anthropology Newsletter. Monthly newsletter for the University of New 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.