More than 50 of her short stories have been published in The Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train and many other journals, and in the anthologies Santa Barbara Stories and California Shorts and the bestselling anthology Dog is my Co-Pilot. Her stories have been honored in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest and the Tobias Wolff Award and nominated for Best American Short Stories, the O’Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. Three have been cited in Best American Short Stories.
Catherine is founder and former president (2000-2009) of the Pay It Forward Foundation. As a professional public speaker she has addressed the National Conference on Education, twice spoken at Cornell University, met with Americorps members at the White House and shared a dais with Bill Clinton.
For more information, please visit the author at catherineryanhyde.com. You can also learn more about Catherine by picking up your copy of The Long Steep Path!
Also by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Fiction
Walk Me Home
When You Were Older
Don’t Let Me Go
Second Hand Heart
When I Found You
Always Chloe and Other Stories
Subway Dancer and Other Stories
Electric God/The Hardest Part of Love
Funerals for Horses
Walter’s Purple Heart
Earthquake Weather and Other Stories
Jumpstart the World
The Day I Killed James
Chasing Windmills
The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance
Love in the Present Tense
Becoming Chloe
Pay It Forward
Nonfiction
The Long, Steep Path: Everyday Inspiration from the Author of Pay It Forward
How to be a Writer in the E-Age…And Keep Your E-Sanity
Copyright © 2013 by Catherine Ryan Hyde.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from the author or publisher.
Edition: May 2013