Katherine Dykstra
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Katherine Dykstra is the author of What Happened to Paula: An Unsolved Death and the Danger of American Girlhood (W.W. Norton), which was on Best Books of Summer lists in the New York Times Book Review, People magazine, and the Chicago Tribune, among others. She served as senior nonfiction editor at Guernica for many years and was recently a Writer-in-Residence at Monmouth University. She is currently on the faculty of the Mountainview low-residency MFA program. Her essays have been published in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Guernica, Poets and Writers, The Common, and Shenandoah, among others. Her work has twice been included in the "Notables" section of the Best American Essays collections. She is at work on a novel that takes place in a maternity home in the 1960s.
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Winning Entry: All Girls, But One
Contest Won: Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2025, Honorable Mention
