Katharine Beutner Explained

Katharine Beutner
Birth Place:	Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality:	American
Known For:	Feminist writings
Education:	Smith College (BA) University of Texas (PhD)
Occupation:	Novelist, academic

Katharine Beutner is an American novelist, essayist, and academic. She is the author of Alcestis, winner of the Edmund White Award for debut fiction from the Publishing Triangle in 2011. She was an assistant professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is currently an assistant professor of English at the College of Wooster.^[1]

Personal life

Beutner is bisexual. ^[2]

Published works

Novels

• Alcestis (Soho Press, 2010)
• Killingly (Soho Press, 2023)

Journals

• Some Little Lamb (an excerpt from the novel Killingly) (TriQuarterly, 2013)

Academic publications

• Remixing the Outline: a Middle-State Moment of Revision. Rough Cuts: Media and Design in Process. Curated by Kari Kraus. Digital collection on MediaCommons’ The New Everyday.
• The Sole Business of Ladies in Romances': Sharing Histories in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote. Masters of the Marketplace: British Women Novelists of the 1750s. Ed. Susan Carlile. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, May 2011. 165-181.
• Review of A Political Biography of Delarivier Manley, Rachel Carnell. Women’s Writing 17.1 (April 2010): 196-198.

Awards

• Winner, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction,^[3] 2011, from the Publishing Triangle (for Alcestis).
• Finalist, Lesbian Debut Fiction Award, 2011, Lambda Literary Foundation (for Alcestis).
• Finalist, Compton Crook Award, 2011, BSFS (for Alcestis).

Notes and References

1. Web site: College of Wooster English Department Bios . wooster.edu . 2021-04-19.
2. Web site: MFAs, bisexuality, and an announcement . blog.katharinebeutner.com . 2022-12-15.
3. Web site: Graduate student Katharine Beutner wins Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.