Kathryn Trueblood | |
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Education |
University of California, Berkeley University of Washington |
Occupation(s) | Professor of English Writer |
Employer | Western Washington University |
Website |
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Kathryn Trueblood is an American author. She is most known as a writer of fiction whose work focuses on the medical humanities. [1] She is the recipient of the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction from the Bellevue Literary Review [2] and the 2011 Red Hen Press Short Story Award. [3] Trueblood's work has been critically well received by major publishing trade magazines like Kirkus Reviews [4] and Publishers Weekly. [5]
Trueblood was born and raised in California.[ citation needed] She attended the Avalon School, a unified K-12 school on Catalina Island.[ citation needed] She matriculated from University of California, Berkeley, and went on to study at University of Washington, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree.[ citation needed] She now lives in Washington.[ citation needed]
Trueblood has twice been diagnosed with a chronic illness—first Graves disease, and then Crohn's. [6] She has been frank about the challenges of parenting with a chronic illness [7] and the influences this has on her writing.