C. Ryan Hyde

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Author_C_Ryan_Hyde.jpg (15501 bytes) Catherine Ryan Hyde teaches fiction part-time at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, California, and at the Cuesta College Writer's Conference each fall, and writes full-time. She is the author of a novel, "Funerals for Horses" (Russian Hill Press 1997), and a collection of short fiction, "Earthquake Weather" (Russian Hill Press 1998).

Her short stories have been published in Bottomfish, The Illinois Review, Aura, Hayden's Ferry Review, Pearl, South Dakota Review, Vignette, The Amherst Review, Descant, Eureka Literary Magazine, The Crescent Review, and other journals. She has stories forthcoming in The Laurel Review, River Styx, High Plains Literary Review, Literal Latte, Bellingham Review, Red Cedar Review, and the anthology Santa Barbara Stories (John Daniel & Co., Fall 1998).

Her story "Subway Dancer and Snake" will be published in the Antioch Review in 1998. Two of her stories have been honored in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, "Love is Always Running Away" in 1994 and "Dante" in 1996. Her story "Red Texas Sky" was nominated for Best American Short Stories, the O'Henry Award, and a Pushcart Prize, and her story "Wednesday Man" was also nominated for Pushcart Prize XXII. She received second place in the 1997 Bellingham Review Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction for "Breakage," an excerpt from her novel "Turtle Park."

Catherine recently served on the 1998 fiction fellowship panel of the Arizona Commission on the Arts.