Kate Sterns
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Kate Sterns is a Canadian writer.
Biography
Born in Toronto, Ontario, she now lives in Montreal, Quebec.{{cite web|url=http://quebecbooks.qwf.org/authors/view/492|title=Kate Sterns|website=Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Database}} She credits Grace Paley and Anton Chekhov as early influences.{{cite web|title=Concordia University interview with Kate Sterns|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWP_gHalw64|website=youtube.com| date=13 November 2011 }}
Her first novel, Thinking About Magritte, has been described as a "pool of brightly tinted cartoon images," and centred on Midnight Cowboy, who lives in Limestone, and whose fantasies about his dead mother bring her back to life.{{cite web|title=Thinking About Magritte | url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-679-41207-6|website=publishersweekly.com}} Her second novel, Down There By The Train,{{cite web|title=Down There By The Train|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-609-61015-2|website=publishersweekly.com}} featured a hero named Levon Hawke recovering from the tragic death of his younger sister. It was a finalist for the Quebec Writers' Federation Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2001.{{cite web|title=Quebec Writers' Federation database|url=http://quebecbooks.qwf.org/books/view/754|website=qwf.org}}
Her radio plays The Bagel Philosopher and Once in a Blue Moon were broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
She is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Concordia University.{{cite web|title=Concordia University English Department|url=http://english.concordia.ca/facultyandstaff/full-time/people/sterns.php|website=english.concordia.ca}}
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