Katherine Towler

Katherine Towler is author of the novels Snow Island and Evening Ferry. Part of a planned trilogy, the novels are set on a fictional New England island and chronicle the lives of two generations in two island families and the impact of the wars of the twentieth century on the island community. Praised by the Boston Globe as "luminous and moving," Snow Island was chosen as a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers title, a Borders Original Voices title, and a Booksense selection. Evening Ferry, also a Booksense selection, was described as "gracefully written" by Publishers Weekly and as "a strong and deeply satisfying tale" by the author John Barth. Katherine has received fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. She was awarded the George Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy and served as the school's writer-in-residence. She has published poetry, short stories, and a series of interviews with prominent writers and poets in The Sun Magazine, The Worcester Review, The Tusculum Review, Mars Hill Review, and In Posse Review.

Katherine grew up in New York City at General Theological Seminary, where her father was on the faculty. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and earned an M.A. in writing at Johns Hopkins and an M.A. in English literature at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. She has taught creative writing to students of all ages, including working with public school students through the artists-in-the-schools program in New Hampshire. Currently she teaches graduate students in the low residency MFA program in writing at Southern New Hampshire University and works as a freelance writer specializing in publications and promotional materials for schools and non-profits. She lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with her husband.

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