Catherine Gammon is author of the novels The Martyrs, The Lovers (55 Fathoms, 2023), China Blue (Bridge Eight Press, 2021), Sorrow (Braddock Avenue Books, 2013) and Isabel Out of the Rain (Mercury House, 1991). Her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and Iowa Review, most recently in Cincinnati Review and The Missouri Review, among many others, as well as online at Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Blood Pudding, and Fractured Lit. Catherine’s work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as the AAS, and from colonies including the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Djerassi. Catherine taught on the MFA fiction faculty of the University of Pittsburgh between 1992 and 2000, before beginning residential Zen training at San Francisco Zen Center, where she was ordained a priest in 2005. She lives again in Pittsburgh.
To read more about Catherine Gammon’s novel Nightbirds in an Age of Light, read her interview with New England Review.
Fellowships
- 1996: Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund Fellowship