Kathryn Ma is the author of All That Work and Still No Boys, winner of the
2009 Iowa Short Fiction Award, and the recipient of the 2008 David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction.  She was a 2010 San Francisco Public Library Laureate,
and her book, a collection of short stories,was named a San Francisco Chronicle “Notable” Book and a Los Angeles Times “Discovery” Book.

Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Kathryn is the daughter of parents from Wuxi and Mengzi, China.  Her stories have appeared in the Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, Northwest Review, Prairie Schooner, Southwest Review, Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere.  Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize
and Best New American Voices.  Kathryn was a Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and has taught in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Oregon. In 2011, she was a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Saint Mary's College of California.

Kathryn holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in history from Stanford University.  She earned a JD from the University of California, Berkeley and
practiced law for a number of years in San Francisco.  She is an active volunteer
in the arts and education, serving previously as the founding board chair of the
San Francisco Friends School and currently on the Board of Directors of the
Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon.  Kathryn lives with her family
in San Francisco.

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