Katherine Vaz

Katherine Vaz , a former Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University and a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, is the author of the novels Saudade , on the Discover Great New Writers list with Barnes & Noble, and Mariana , in six languages and optioned by Harrison Productions. Her collection Fado & Other Stories won a Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and Our Lady of the Artichokes & Other Portuguese-American Stories received a Prairie Schooner Book Award. Her fiction...See more

Katherine Vaz , a former Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University and a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, is the author of the novels Saudade , on the Discover Great New Writers list with Barnes & Noble, and Mariana , in six languages and optioned by Harrison Productions. Her collection Fado & Other Stories won a Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and Our Lady of the Artichokes & Other Portuguese-American Stories received a Prairie Schooner Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in dozens of magazines, including Tin House , BOMB , Antioch Review , Iowa Review , The Common , Narrative , Ninth Letter , and Glimmer Train . She is the first Portuguese-American to have her work recorded for the Archives of the Library of Congress (Hispanic Division). See less