Katharine Haake's prior books are a novel, That Water, Those Rocks, and the LA Times best-selling collection of stories, The Height and Depth of Everything, both from the University of Nevada Press Western Literature Series; her first book was No Reason on Earth (Dragon Gate Press). Her short fiction has appeared widely in such magazines as The Iowa Review, Witness, One Story, The Michigan Quarterly Review, New Letters, and The Santa Monica Review, and has been featured in the online magazine, Segue, as well as in the New Short Fiction Series at the Beverly Hills Library.

Haake is a recipient of an Individual Artist's Grant from the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles, along with distinguished story recognitions from Best American Short Stories and Best of the West, an Editor's Choice Award from Cream City Review, and an Honorable Mention in the Fountain Award for Speculative Literature.

A regular contributor to scholarship in the theory and pedagogy of creative writing, she is also the author of What Our Speech Disrupts: Feminism and Creative Writing Studies (NCTE); and, with Hans Ostrom and the late Wendy Bishop, Metro: Journeys in Writing Creatively (Longman). She teaches at California State University, Northridge.