Hester Kaplan

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Name Hester Kaplan Role Short story writer		Education Barnard College

Awards Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Books The Tell, Unravished, The Edge of Marriage, Kinship Theory

Hester kaplan at the january 2013 nyc sunday salon

Hester Kaplan is an American short story writer, and novelist.

She grew up in Cambridge. She graduated from Barnard College.

She has taught writing at Rhode Island School of Design and teaches at Lesley University.

Her work appeared in Ploughshares, Story, Glimmer Train, and Agni, "The Private Life of Skin", appeared in Southwest Review.

She is the mother of two boys, Alex and Toby.

1999 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship

2008 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Kinship Theory: A Novel. Back Bay. 2002. ISBN 978-0-316-50426-3.

The Edge of Marriage. W. W. Norton & Company. 2001. ISBN 978-0-393-32144-9.

Amy Tan (ed.). The Best American Short Stories 1999. ISBN 978-0-395-92684-0.

The Best American Short Stories 1998.

Work appearing in Ploughshares

"Goodwell", Ploughshares, Spring 1989

"Companion Animal", Ploughshares, Spring 2003

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