Katharine Beutner is an American novelist, essayist, and academic. She is the author of Alcestis, winner of the Edmund White Award for debut fiction from the Publishing Triangle in 2011. She was an assistant professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is currently an assistant professor of English at the College of Wooster.[1]

Katharine Beutner
Born
NationalityAmerican
EducationSmith College (BA)
University of Texas (PhD)
Occupation(s)Novelist, academic
Known forFeminist writings
Websitekatharinebeutner.com

Personal life

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Beutner is bisexual. [2]

Published works

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Novels

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  • Alcestis (Soho Press, 2010)
  • Killingly (Soho Press, 2023)

Journals

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  • Some Little Lamb (an excerpt from the novel Killingly) (TriQuarterly, 2013)

Academic publications

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  • Remixing the Outline: a Middle-State Moment of Revision. Rough Cuts: Media and Design in Process. Curated by Kari Kraus. Digital collection on MediaCommons’ The New Everyday.
  • 'The Sole Business of Ladies in Romances': Sharing Histories in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote. Masters of the Marketplace: British Women Novelists of the 1750s. Ed. Susan Carlile. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, May 2011. 165-181.
  • Review of A Political Biography of Delarivier Manley, Rachel Carnell. Women’s Writing 17.1 (April 2010): 196-198.

Awards

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  • Winner, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction,[3] 2011, from the Publishing Triangle (for Alcestis).
  • Finalist, Lesbian Debut Fiction Award, 2011, Lambda Literary Foundation (for Alcestis).
  • Finalist, Compton Crook Award, 2011, BSFS (for Alcestis).

References

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  1. ^ "College of Wooster English Department Bios". wooster.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  2. ^ "MFAs, bisexuality, and an announcement". blog.katharinebeutner.com. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  3. ^ "Graduate student Katharine Beutner wins Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction".