Kara Oakleaf
Kara Oakleaf
Director, Fall for the Book Festival
Creative Writing
Kara Oakleaf is the director of Watershed Lit and the Fall for the Book festival, and teaches creative writing and literature in the English department. She received her M.F.A. at George Mason University and her work appears in Best Small Fictions 2020, Bloomsbury's Short-Form Creative Writing, and journals including Matchbook, Booth, Wigleaf and SmokeLong Quarterly.
Selected Publications
"Contained Evolution." Fiction, MoonPark Review, 2023.
"The Shadow Boyfriends." Fiction, Atlas & Alice, 2022.
"The Disappearing." Fiction, Fictive Dream, 2022.
"Tornado Weather." Fiction, Fiction Southeast, 2021.
"Inked." Fiction, Heavy Feather Review, 2020.
"Rumors of Ice." Fiction, Booth, 2020.
"On Fire." Fiction, Matchbook, 2019.
"The Mermaids Grow Old." Fiction, Pithead Chapel, 2019.
"The Magician." Fiction, Wigleaf, 2018.
"View of the End of the World from the Holiday Inn Express - Salina." Fiction, Jellyfish Review, 2018.
"Gravity, Reduced." Fiction, SmokeLong Quarterly, 2017.
"Baby In Light." Fiction, Postcard Poems and Prose, 2017.
"Origin Story." Nonfiction, Tahoma Literary Review, 2016.
"The Astronauts' Baseball League." Fiction, Monkeybicycle, 2016.
Courses Taught
ENGH 355 Contemporary Fiction
ENGH 392 Forms of Fiction
ENGH 398 Fiction Writing
ENGH 492 Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop
Education
M.F.A., George Mason University
B.A., Denison University