Kate Wheeler
Born1955 (age 68–69)
Oklahoma
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • meditation teacher
Alma mater
Notable awards

Kate Wheeler (born 1955 Oklahoma) is an American novelist and meditation teacher. Since 2016, she has served as the coordinator of the Meditation Retreat Teacher Training Program at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, where she trains senior students to be empowered as teachers. She also is a practicing Buddhist teacher and instructor that offers retreats, talks, and person guidance to communities and individuals. Wheller received a Pushcart Prize as well as two O. Henry Awards.[1]

Life

She was raised in various parts of South America. She graduated from Rice University, and Stanford University. She was ordained a Buddhist nun in Burma.[2] She teaches at Southwest Texas State University.[3] She was a panelist at the Key West Literary Seminar.[4]

She is married and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Awards

  • 1981 Second prize, Xerox-Atlantic Monthly American Short Story Contest
  • 1982 O. Henry Awards, for La Victoire[5]
  • 1983 Pushcart Prize, for Judgment[6]
  • 1992 The Best American Short Stories 1992
  • 1993 O. Henry Awards, for Improving My Average[7]
  • 1993 PEN/Faulkner runner-up
  • 1994 Whiting Award
  • 1994 NEA Fellowship
  • 1996 Twenty best novelists under 40 in US, Granta
  • 1997 Best of Outside: the First 20 Years
  • 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship[8]
  • 1999 Somerville Arts Council Grant
  • 2002 Best American Travel Writing
  • 2008 Best Women's Travel Writing
  • 2008 The Best Buddhist Writing
  • 2008 Radcliffe Institute Fellow

Works

  • Not Where I Started From. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1997. ISBN 978-0-395-86032-8.
  • When Mountains Walked. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2001. ISBN 978-0-618-12701-6. Kate Wheeler (novelist).

Editors

  • Kate Wheeler, ed. (2004). Nixon under the bodhi tree and other works of Buddhist fiction. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 978-0-86171-354-7.

Anthologies

  • "Contemporary Fiction: Granta's Best of the Young American Novelists " 1996
  • C. Michael Curtis, ed. (2003). Faith: stories. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-37824-1.
  • William Miller Abrahams, ed. (1982). Prize Stories 1982: The O. Henry Awards. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-17563-0.
  • Robert Stone; Katrina Kenison, eds. (1992). The best American short stories. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-59304-2.
  • Frances Mayes; Jason Wilson, eds. (2002). The Best American Travel Writing 2002. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-11880-9.
  • Lucy McCauley, ed. (2008). "Cave with a View". The Best Women's Travel Writing 2008: True Stories from Around the World. Travelers' Tales. ISBN 978-1-932361-55-1.

References

  1. ↑ "Kate Wheeler, Panelist - January 2006 Key West Literary Seminar". www.kwls.org. Key West Literary Seminar. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  2. ↑ Curtis, C. Michael (2003-01-01). Faith: Stories. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0618378243.
  3. ↑ "Texas State-San Marcos MFA Program". Archived from the original on 2009-06-12. Retrieved 2010-01-05.
  4. ↑ "Kate Wheeler, Panelist - January 2006 Key West Literary Seminar". keywestliteraryseminar.org. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
  5. ↑ "The O. Henry Prize Stories Past Winners List". Random House. Archived from the original on 17 August 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  6. ↑ Allen, Bruce (12 August 1983). "The Pushcart Prize, VIII". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  7. ↑ "Prize Stories 1993 THE O'HENRY AWARDS". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  8. ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Kate Wheeler". Retrieved 2021-11-02.
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