Kate Myers Hanson

Associate Professor
B.A., Creative Writing, University of Iowa
M.F.A.Creative Writing, The Iowa Writers' Workshop
khanson@nmu.edu

Teaching Specialties

• Fiction
• Creative Nonfiction
• Prose Poem and Short Short Fiction
• The Novel in Story Cycles

Professor Hanson is beginning her third year on the writing faculty in the Department of English. In addition to teaching, she is Editor-in-Chief of Passages North, the literary magazine of Northern Michigan University and is active in the Marquette Arts Council, promoting the Poets and Writers Series, a collaborative effort between the community at large and the Department of English. Her short stories have been widely published, including work in The North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and Shenandoah. In 1998, her story, "Book of Name," was awarded the Bernice Slote Award for Fiction and nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Prairie Schooner. Carnegie Mellon Press will publish her collection short stories, Narrow Beams, this fall. Currently, she is hard at work on a novel told in story cycles.