Kathryn Burak

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Kathryn Burak
Born (1959-06-11) June 11, 1959 (age 64)
Young adult fiction
Spouse
Paul Makishima
​
(m. 1987)​
Children2

Kathryn Burak (born June 11, 1959) is an American young adult novelist.

Biography

She was born in

Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. and an MFA in poetry [1] from the University of Massachusetts Amherst
.

She is director of the Writing Program in the College of Communications at Boston University.[2]

Her debut novel "Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things" (Roaring Brook Press

ISBN 1596437367) [3] is about a troubled young woman who moves to Amherst, Mass., after her mother's suicide, steals Emily Dickinson
's dress from the poet's museum, and solves the mystery of her best friend's disappearance.

A starred

Boston Globe called it a "lyrical and erudite tribute to Amherst's most famous resident."[5]

The novel was nominated for an

Edgar Award,[6] named to the Independent Booksellers Association's New Voices list for 2012,[7]
and Southern Maine Library District's "Cream of the Crop" list of the best children's and young adult titles of 2012.

Burak's poetry and short stories have appeared in the

Fiction,[9] Grey Sparrow,[10] Western Humanities Review, Gettysburg Review [11]
West Branch, Yarrow, and Seventeen.

She is also co-author of the writing textbook Writing in the Works (Cengage Learning

ISBN 1111834601
)

She married Paul Makishima in 1987 and has two children.

References

  1. ^ MFA Program for poets and writers [dead link]
  2. ^ "Kathryn Burak | College of Communication".
  3. ^ "Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things | Kathryn Burak | Macmillan". Archived from the original on June 23, 2013. Retrieved April 16, 2013.
  4. ^ Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things, by Kathryn Burak | Booklist Online – via www.booklistonline.com.
  5. ^ "'Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things'; 'Safekeeping'; 'The Raven Boys' - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com.
  6. ^ "Edgar Award Winners and Nominees". www.theedgars.com. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Retrieved April 16, 2013.
  7. ^ "2012 Fall New Voices Picks Announced". the American Booksellers Association. August 9, 2012.
  8. S2CID 246236421
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  9. ^ "Author Index — Fiction". Fiction. Fiction, Inc. Retrieved May 1, 2022.
  10. ^ "Flash 2010 Flash". greysparrowpress.net. [dead link]
  11. ^ "Gettysburg Review". www.gettysburgreview.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.
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