Catherine Kasper
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Dr. Kasper's research interests include creative writing, fiction, poetry and poetics, twentieth-century literature and arts.
Selected Grants and Honors
Creative Writing Course Development Project, proposal award from the Teaching and Learning Center and Center for Distance Learning and Academic Technology, curriculum design and development, 2006-7.Research Development Grant, summer 2006.SALSI Grant, 2005. UTHSCSA-UTSA.Centrum Writers' Residency, Washington State , 2005. PEN Texas Award, 2004.Winnow Press First Book Contest winner, 2004.Pecan Grove Chapbook Contest winner, 2004.Honors Alliance Faculty Award, 2003.Faculty Development Leave, fall 2003.Writer's League of Texas Writer's Fellowship, May 2002. First Place , Creative Non-Fiction Essay Contest (Writer's League of Texas,) fall 2001. First Place , Mid-American Review Fineline Award, (short fiction) fall 2001.Editor's Choice Award, Mid-American Review Fineline Award, (short fiction) fall 2001.Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2001. Dean's Circle Award, June 2000.Vermont Studio Fellowship, May 1998. AWP Intro Award, 1995. Academy of American Poets Prize, 1982.
Publications Books
Field Stone, poems, (Winnow Press 2005) A Gradual Disappearance of Insects, poems (Pecan Grove Press, 2005) Optical Projections, short stories, (Obscure Publications, 2004) A Cabinet of Infinite Compartments, collaborative novel, (forthcoming 2008).
"The Theater Spectacular," and "Diorama Alley," (short stories), Texts: UR anthology, editor Forrest Aguirre, 2007. "Begin Again" in anthology on women and their careers, Karen Waldron, editor, North Texas University Press, fall 2007. "Melody," (short story), Muses anthology, edited by Deborah Layne, Wheatland Press, spring 2006, 61-66. "Undermine," "Administration," "Wilderness," (poems), Borderlands , Fall/Winter #25, spring 2006, 58-60."Ferocious Alphabets," essay on writing, in the textbook, Diversity in Thinking and Research, edited by Susanne Kimball and Mike Hudson, Pearson Custom Publishing, 2006, 73-75."These Hostilities" (poem), Cranky Literary Journal, Vol. 1, Number 5, May 2005, 40. "The Feminine Mistake," James Hall non-fiction editor, Gulf Coast , Volume 17.5, spring-summer 2005 issue, 146-150. "Rain" (short story), Spoiled Ink , international literary web journal, May 2005."Life of the Collection" (poem), The Literary Review , Volume 48, Number 2, winter 2005, 41."Wig of Bees," "Cabinet of Infinite Compartments," and "Cosmic Gown," the Notre Dame Review, (reprints) Number 19, winter 2005, 139-142. "This is Your Only Warning" in Provide and Protect: Writers for Planned Parenthood , anthology, Jenny Browne, editor, Wings Press, San Antonio , spring 2005, 8-9. "Taxonomy" (poem), Texas Poetry Journal , spring 2005, 12.
Editor
Co-Editor of American Letters & Commentary, literary and visual arts. Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal: special issue on Barbara Guest, emphasizing her historic importance and influence as a poet, and her collaborations with the visual arts, Vol. 30:1, spring 2001. The Denver Quarterly : special issue, Vol. 34, No. 1, spring 1999.
Book Arts
Two Stories , a limited chapbook edition handmade by the author in conjunction with the advanced fiction workshop, UTSA, spring 2003. Blueprints of the City , a chapbook edition from Transparent Tiger Press, December 2000. We do not know what the herring feels , a limited edition chapbook of poetry and collages made in conjunction with the workshop on poetry and the visual arts, Gemini Ink, spring 2000. Title from W.S. Sebald.
Reviews
Review of Field Stone, in ChicagoPostmodernPoetry.Com, by Lea Graham, April 2006.Review of Field Stone, in CutBank Poetry, the literary journal of the University of Montana in Missoula, reviewed by Jen Tynes, Frebruary 13, 2006."Editors Select" Field Stone , in The Notre Dame Review, Number 20, Summer 2005, 174."In Brief" Field Stone, in Women's Studies, by Jeffrey R. Morano, Vol. 34, No. 7, October-November 2005, 617-618."View from 1 st Ave. : A thousand and one reasons to innovate," review of Field Stone by Sima Rabinowitz, Dragonfire : original works, Drexel University , 2006.Review of Field Stone, in forty-two: book review, January 7, 2006. Review of Two Poems, Verse literary journal, Dept. of English, University of Georgia, reviewed by Zackary Sholem Berger, "Review of Skanky Possum # 10" Nov. 5, 2004.
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