Katherine H.

Novelist, Critic, Professor

Brooklyn, New York, United States

About

Fiction writer and college professor. Author of the novels THE VIOLET HOUR (Scribner 2013) and A SHORT MOVE (Ig 2020). Co-author of THE FERRANTE LETTERS: AN EXPERIMENT IN COLLECTIVE CRITICISM (Columbia University Press 2020). www.katherine-hill.com

Experience

  • Associate Professor of English at Adelphi University
    Sep 2016 - Present · 9 yrs 10 mos

    Tenured faculty member teaching creative writing and literature to undergraduate and MFA students. Faculty union rep (AAUP/AFT).

  • Novelist at Simon and Schuster
    Jul 2013 - Present · 13 yrs

    Author of THE VIOLET HOUR (Scribner) and A SHORT MOVE (Ig) with additional fiction in AGNI, Colorado Review, The Common, Guernica, Inkwell Journal, The Literary Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, n+1, Philadelphia Stories, and Story. Articles and reviews in The Believer, Bookforum, The Guardian, The Nation, The New Republic, New York Times Book Review, Paris Review Daily, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Inquirer, Poets & Writers, Post Road, Post45, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Tin House, and Wall Street Journal.

  • Assistant Editor at Barrelhouse
    Feb 2011 - Jul 2024 · 13 yrs 6 mos

    Read submissions and help plan events for this DC-based literary journal

  • MFA Faculty at Arcadia University
    Aug 2014 - Jul 2015 · 1 yr

    Taught Fiction Workshops 3 and 4 (required sequence for 2nd-year Master's degree students), critiqued eleven fiction theses, advised students on professional goals

  • College English Instructor at Princeton Prison Teaching Initiative
    Jan 2014 - Jun 2014 · 6 mos