Katharine Haake is a fourth generation native Californian, whose work reflects a deep engagement with the land and people of this place, a perspective that now, with her new novel, The Time of Quarantine, includes of kind of speculative future history. In addition to Quarantine, she is the author of a hybrid novel, That Water, Those Rocks, and three collections of short stories, the eco-fabulist The Origin of Stars, the LA Times bestselling The Height and Depth of Everything, and the New York Times notable No Reason on Earth, and a hybrid novel, That Water, Those Rocks. Her short work has appeared widely in such magazines as The Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, Witness, One Story, New Letters, and The Santa Monica Review, and has been featured in the online magazine, Segue, as well as in LA's New Short Fiction Performance Series. 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 Fiction.