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Kathleen Wheaton was born in Frankfurt, Germany and grew up in California. She majored in English and Spanish at Stanford University and later received an MFA from Boston University. She is married to NPR reporter David Welna and they have two sons. She speaks Spanish and Portuguese and works as an interpreter of those languages for the Montgomery County public school system. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Kathleen Wheaton’s first collection of short stories, Aliens and Other Stories, won the Washington Writers’ Publishing House prize in 2013 and will appear in October of this year. Her short stories have appeared in Narrative, New South, the Baltimore Review, Flyway, and other publications, as well as the anthologies Flash Fiction Forward ...more

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	This Is What America Looks Like: Poetry & Fiction from DC, Maryland, Virginia by Caroline Bock (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jona Colson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kathleen Wheaton (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Last September (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

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