Office Hours:
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Kathryn Kramer
Visiting Assistant Professor of English & American Literatures
Axinn Center at Starr Library 206
Phone: 802.443.2433
Email: kkramer@middlebury.edu
Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
A.B., Marlboro College; M.A., Johns Hopkins University

All three of my novels ...

  • A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space
  • Rattlesnake Farming
  • Sweet Water

    ... are now available through www.amazon.com.

    CURRICULUM VITAE

    B.A. Marlboro College, 1975
    M.A. Writing, Johns Hopkins University, 1976
    T.E.S.O.L. Certificate, Trinity College, London, 2002

    TEACHING POSITIONS:

    Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, Middlebury College,
    Middlebury, VT, 1997-present

    Adjunct Faculty, The Writing Seminars, Bennington College,
    Bennington, VT, Spring 1996; ADP Program, Vermont College,
    Montpelier, VT, Fall 1994

    Writer-in-residence, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
    NM, Spring 1994

    Assistant Professor, The Writing Program, Washington University,
    St. Louis, MO, 1990-93

    Writer-in-residence, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, 1989-90

    Assistant Professor, English Department and Comparative
    Literature, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1986-89

    Instructor of Creative Writing, Literature, and Composition,
    and Co-Director of Expository Writing Program, Marlboro College,
    Marlboro, VT, 1983-86

    PUBLICATIONS:

    Novels: Sweet Water (Knopf, 1998)
    Rattlesnake Farming (Knopf, 1992)
    A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space (Knopf, 1984)

    Short Fiction:
    "Seeds of Conflict" in Soldiers and Civilians: Americans at War and
    at Home (Bantam Books, 1986)
    "A Rose in the Snow" in Love Stories by New Women (Avon Books,
    1982)
    "Vanishing," Century Magazine, 1982
    "On All Fronts," Mississippi Review, 1981
    "The Ti-Particle," Bradford, VT Journal-Opinion, 1981
    "Of Orchards," Generation Magazine, 1980
    "The New Ice Age," Chomo-Uri, 1980

    Non-fiction:
    “The Chanterelle Crusades,” Northern Woodlands, Summer 2001
    "Dr. McElroy, Homeopathist" in Review of Contemporary Fiction,
    Winter, 1990
    book reviews, New York Times, Boston Herald, Vermont Woodlands
    Interview with Georges Borchardt, New Boston Review, 1978

    OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

    Freelance editor and copyeditor
    Assistant Director, Dolphin Learning Place, Santa Fe, NM, 1993-1995
    Principal reader of unsolicited manuscripts for Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1979-82
    Second chef, Carpenter Street Restaurant, Norwich, VT, 1982-83
    Assistant to Trade Editor, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1976-79 Interview Editor, New Boston Review, Cambridge, MA, 1977-78

    GRANTS, AWARDS:

    Vermont Arts Council Grant, 1999
    Guggenheim Fellowship, 1996
    Ingram Merrill Grant, 1995
    Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant, 1995
    Resident, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, 1992
    MacDowell Colony Fellow, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1991
    Taft Fellow, University of Cincinnati, 1987, 1989
    Vermont Arts Council Grant, 1986

    REFERENCES:
    Available upon request

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