Katherine Fishburn

KATHERINE FISHBURN is Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University where she taught in the English Department for thirty years. Her articles have appeared in various journals such as Studies in the Novel and Research in African Literatures; and in six scholarly books, including Richard Wright’s Hero: The Faces of a Rebel-Victim, The Unexpected Universe of Doris Lessing: A Study in Narrative Technique, Reading Buchi Emecheta: Cross-Cultural Conversations. The Problem of Embodiment in Early African American Narrative, and one book of poetry, The Dead Are So Disappointing (2000). Her poems have published literary journals, such as Snowy Egret, Enizagam, Quarter After Eight, and The Florida Review, where in 2001 she won the Editors’ Award in Poetry. Before earning her PhD, she taught English for two years at Governor Thomas Johnson High School in Frederick, Maryland. Also a visual artist, in retirement Fishburn has had three one-woman shows at galleries in Michigan. In 2013, three of her paintings appeared on the covers of the Mid-American Review, Volume 34.