KATHERINE ARNOLDI

Dates at Hedgebrook
February, 1999

Genres
Fiction, Graphic Novel, Non-fiction

Publications and Productions

• Juniper Prize Short Story Collection, University of Massachusetts Press, Spring 2007 
• The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom, Hyperion, 1998 
• "Fair means Fair: My Fight for Equal Access to Education for Teen Moms," Web Publication, 2005-2006
• Essay, The Essential HipMaMa: Writing from the Cutting Edge of Parenting, Seal Press, 2004 
• "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Education," You Look Too Young to Be a Mom, Penguin, 2004 
• "How I Became a Cartoonist," Best of Hip MaMa, Seal Press, 2004

Honors, Awards and Acknowledgements 

• Finalist for the Ohio State University Short Fiction Prize, 2006 
• Newhouse Fiction Award: SUNY Binghamton, also a Scholar's Incentive Grant for the doctoral program, Creative Writing, 2005 
• Amazing True Story chosen as one of the Top Ten Books of 1999 by Entertainment Weekly, 1999  
• American Library Association Award: Top Ten Quick Pick for Young Adults, 1999
• Nominated for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in the Graphic Novel, 1999
• New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award in Printmaking, Drawing, Artist's Books, 1997 
• New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award in Fiction, 1990
• DeJur Award in Fiction, Transatlantic Fiction Award, Henfield Foundation, 1998

Short Bio
Katherine Arnoldi's graphic novel, The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom, was named one of the top ten books of the year by  Entertainment Weekly, was nominated for a Will Eisner Award in the Graphic Novel, won two American Library Awards and is being made into a film by the Kennedy Marshall Company (Universal Studios). This summer she is included in She Draws Comics: 100 Years of Women Cartoonists, curated by Trina Robbins at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, New York.

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