Kate Bernheimer is a distinguished author, scholar, and editor celebrated for her groundbreaking contributions to fairy tales. As a writer of fiction, she has published two story collections, including How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales, and three early experimental novels. She also is a vanguard editor of new fairy tales and essays about fairy tales, including as editor of the World Fantasy Award winning and bestselling My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales and xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, and as editor of Fairy Tale Review, an award winning literary magazine whose selections have appeared in The O Henry Awards anthology and Best American Short Stories. Her newest short stories have appeared in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, American Short Fiction, The Adroit Journal, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere. With Laird Hunt, she was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award for the co-authored novella Office at Night, a joint commission of Coffee House Press and The Walker Art Center. She is also author of author of three children's books published by Penguin Random House. Her books have been translated into Catalan, Chinese, Greek, French, Korean, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, and other languages. Her nonfiction about fairy tales has been featured such places as The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker (Page-Turner blog), The New York Times Book Review, and NPR's "All Things Considered." Bernheimer has been a frequent featured speaker at museums, conferences, and literary festivals where she shares her theories on the ethics and aesthetics of fairy tales from antiquity to the present. She relishes, especially, her architectural collaborations with her brother, Andrew Bernheimer of Bernheimer Architecture, featured in a long-running series in Places Journal and a recent book of the same title, Fairy Tale Architecture, as well as an exhibition -- now traveling to architecture museums nationwide -- commissioned by The Center for Architecture in NYC in 2022. To quote bestselling author Benjamin Percy, writing for The New York Times, "Anyone attracted to fairy tales and fables should check out the stories and criticism of Kate Bernheimer." She grew up in Massachusetts and is Professor of English at the University of Arizona, where she teaches a popular large-lecture fairy tale course and fiction workshops.