Kathryn Trueblood
2007 Jack Straw Writers Program

Kathryn Trueblood's latest novel, The Baby Lottery, is published by The Permanent Press of New York. Her first book, The Sperm Donor's Daughter, received a Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize 2000. Trueblood has co-edited two anthologies of multicultural literature, The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards with Ishmael Reed and Shawn Wong (W.W. Norton, 1992); and Homeground, which won the Jurors' Choice Award at Bumbershoot in 1996. She is an Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University.

Listen to Kathryn's interview with 2007 curator Matt Briggs and highlights from her live reading in the Jack Straw May Reading Series.