Ph.D., English Literature, University of Toronto
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer is a novelist, short story writer and essayist who makes Prince Edward County, Ontario her home. Her most recent novel is Wait Softly Brother. She is also the author of the novels All the Broken Things, Perfecting, and The Nettle Spinner. Her short fiction can be found in Granta (UK), The Walrus, Maclean’s, the Lifted Brown (Aus), Significant Objects (USA), as well as, in the collection Way Up. Her writing has won prominent national grants and writing fellowships at Yaddo (USA), Moulin à Nef (France) and the Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts (USA). Her work has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Toronto Book Award, Canada Reads, the ReLit Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award and the Trillium Award and has won a Danuta Gleed Award and a Sidney Prize (US). Kathryn has taught and mentored creative writing students at Colorado College, the University of Toronto, the University of Guelph, Brock University and the Royal Military College. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, where her focus was creative openness in the eighteenth-century British novel as it formed into a genre. Kathryn is represented by Pieter Swinkels at the Transatlantic Literary Agency.