Katherine Vaz is a Briggs-Copeland Fellow in fiction at Harvard University. She is the author of Saudade, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection; Mariana, available in six languages and selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top 30 International Books of 1998; and Fado & Other Stories, winner of the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
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Taking a Stitch in a Dead Man's ArmAll Riptides Roar with Sand from Opposing Shores Our Lady of the ArtichokesMy Bones Here Are Waiting for YoursThe Man Who Was Made of NettingThe Knife Longs for the Ruby The Mandarin QuestionLisbon Story
"In Katherine Vaz's new volume of short fiction, she demonstrates brilliantly that rare quality of truly fine writing--a deeply profound knowingness about the human condition. Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories will even more widely prove what is already clear to many: Katherine Vaz is a master of the short story." Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain "Katherine Vaz captures brilliantly the tragicomedy of people caught between ancient superstitions and modern values, people longing to cross over from one culture to another, from loneliness to love, from folly to grace. Her stories glow with a fairy-tale magic, yet they also feel uniquely and delightfully new." Julia Glass, author of Three Junes and The Whole World Over