Kate Evans


Biography

Kate Evans is the author of a poetry collection (Like All We Love, Spirit/Q Press) and a book about lesbian and gay teachers (Negotiating the Self, Routledge). Her stories, poems and essays have appeared in more than 40 publications, including the North American Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Santa Monica Review,and ZYZZYVA. Her work has been nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Lambda Literary Award and two Pushcart Prizes. A California native, she teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Jose State University.

Readers can learn more about Kate Evans and her writing at www.beingandwriting.blogspot.com.

Books

Complementary Colors    by Kate Evans
Price: $4.99 USD. 90130 words. Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on October 17, 2009. Fiction.

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What happens when a 31-year-old straight woman falls in love with a lesbian? Gwen Sullivan is agitated. Married and divorced and now, living with her scientist boyfriend. She hopes taking a night class in poetry might help. In the class, the allure of two lesbians takes her by surprise. She can't get them out of her mind. This prompts her to question who she is—and who she wants to be.
For the May Queen    by Kate Evans
Price: $4.99 USD. 71500 words. Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on June 14, 2009. Fiction.

“In the tumultuous way of Go Ask Alice, so Kate Evans captures the nightmarish chaos of a young woman’s attempt to find her way amid too much freedom, too much sex and too many drugs.” — Martha Engber, Growing Great Characters From the Ground Up: A Thorough Primer for Writers of Fiction and Nonfiction

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