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Kate Bernheimer

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Kate Bernheimer is the author of two novels and the children’s book The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. She is also the editor of the literary journal Fairy Tale Review, and three anthologies, including My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (forthcoming from Penguin in 2010). An Associate Professor and Writer in Residence at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette each spring, she spends the rest of the year in Tucson, Arizona.

An artist and fiction writer, Rikki Ducornet has illustrated books by Robert Coover, Jorge Luis Borges, Forrest Gander, and Joanna Howard. Her paintings have been exhibited widely, including, most recently, at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Salvador Allende Museum in Santiago, Chile.

Kate Bernheimer Books

Winesburg, Indiana book cover

Winesburg, Indiana

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How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales book cover

How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales

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Office at Night book cover

Office at Night

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xo Orpheus book cover

xo Orpheus

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Horse, Flower, Bird book cover

Horse, Flower, Bird

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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me book cover

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me

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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall book cover

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

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