Katherine Arnoldi
Katherine Arnoldi,born iCanton, Ohio, is an American writer and graphic novelist. Arnoldi is perhaps best known for her graphic novel, The Amazing “True” Story of a Teenage Single Mom (Hyperion: 1998). In 1999 “The Amazing “True” Story of a Teenage Single Mom was cited as a top book of the year by the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 452 libraries.
Arnoldi’s 2007 collection of stories All Things Are Labor won the Juniper prize and was then published by the University of Massachusetts Press in the series of such honored works therein. She has also been a recipient of the Hensfield Transatlantic fiction award, a Jerome Lowell DeJur award in fiction from the City College of New York and two New York Foundation for the Arts awards. In 2008–2009 she was a Fulbright scholar in Paraguay. She has been a fellow at the Blue Mountain Center and the MacDowell Colony.
Expertise
Graphic Novelist, Writer, Artist, Teacher and Pro-Choice Activist for Equal Access to Education for Teenage Mothers.
Degrees
Binghamton University
Ph.D., Creative Writing
Courses Taught
Research and Projects
Publications
Books
The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom, graphic novel (Graymalkin, 2016). First published by Hyperion(1998)
All Things Are Labor, Stories, (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007)
Fiction
Stories published in A Gathering of the Tribes. Blue Collar Review. Five Minute Fiction (Story Press), Room of One’s Own, The World, Longshot, Fiction, The Quarerly, ONTHEBUS, Red Tape: Tragicomix. New Observations.
Nonfiction
Essays published in Professional Artist, Literarian, Rhubarb, College Mom Magazine.The Essential Hip MaMa: Writing from the Cutting Edge of Parenting, edited by Ariel Gore, You Look Too Young to Be a Mom, ed. by Deborah Davis, Best of Hip MaMa, edited by Ariel Gore,, Mamaphonic: Writing from the Cutting Edge of Motherhood,, Tribes web magazine, Tribes.org., HipMaMa.
Art in Women Cartoonists from the USA, catalog Secession Gallery, Vienna, Austria, World War 3.
Honors, Awards and Affiliations
Fulbright to Paraguay, 2008-9
Ohio State University Fiction Prize finalist
Juniper Prize
Newhouse, New York Foundation of the Arts Awards in Fiction and Drawing
DeJur Award
Henfield Transatlantic Fiction Award
Sequoia Prize
Additional Information
Website: https://katherinearnoldi.com/
