Kathleen Hill is a fiction writer who teaches in the MFA Program at Sarah Lawrence College. Her novel Still Waters in Niger was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in Ireland and was listed as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune. It has also been published by the Quality Paperback Bookclub. A French translation, Eaux Tranquilles, was shortlisted for the Prix Femina Etranger for the year 2000.

Over the years, Kathleen Hill?s short stories have been published in leading literary journals such as the Hudson Review, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares. They have won a number of literary awards such as the Bernice Slote Award and the Readers Choice Award. ?The Anointed,? published in DoubleTake, has been included in Best American Short Stories 2000, Pushcart Prize XXV, and The Pushcart Book of Short Stories. In addition, her essay, ?Avesnes: Reading in Place,? was cited in Best American Essays 1999.

Kathleen Hill has received grants from both the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts to support her fiction writing. In addition, she was the Readers Digest Distinguished Writer at the Yaddo Colony and the John Atherton Scholar in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Kathleen Hill received her MA in Comparative Literature from Columbia University where she wrote her thesis on William Blake. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin where she wrote her dissertation on James Joyce and Marcel Proust. Over the years she has taught literature and fiction writing at various colleges and universities in the United States such as the University of Wisconsin, Barnard College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Columbia University. She has also taught English as a Second Language in various countries around the world such as Nigeria, France, India, Japan, and the People?s Republic of China.