 Catherine Ryan Hyde - Critically acclaimed novelist
and award-winning short story writer Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of more
than forty published stories, the novels Pay It Forward and Funerals
for Horses, and the story collection Earthquake Weather.
Pay It Forward, released in February, 2000 by Simon &
Schuster, is a Warner Brothers feature film starring Academy Award winners Kevin
Spacey (American Beauty), Helen Hunt (As Good as it Gets), and Academy Award
nominee Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense). Also from Simon & Schuster, and
already optioned for film are her novels Electric God (December, 2000)
and Walter's Purple Heart (Winter, 2002). Pay It Forward has been
translated into 10 languages for publication in 14 countries, while the mass
market paperback was released by Pocket Books in October, 2000.
Catherine Ryan Hyde's stories have been published in The
Illinois Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, South Dakota Review, The Amherst Review,
Ploughshares, The Crescent Review, The Laurel Review, Literal Latte, High Plains
Literary Review, Bellingham Review, Red Cedar Review, The Antioch Review, Puerto
del Sol, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and other
journals, and in the anthologies Santa Barbara Stories (John Daniel & Co.,
1998), and California Shorts (Heyday Books, 1999).
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; her stories "Wednesday Man, "The Last
Younger Man," "Five Singing Gardeners and One Dead Stranger," and four stories
from Earthquake Weather have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Catherine Ryan
Hyde placed second in the 1997 Bellingham Review Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction
for "Breakage," an excerpt from her novel Turtle Park . Her story "Castration
Humor" was cited as one of the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 1998" in Best
American Short Stories 1999.
Catherine Ryan Hyde has served on the administrative staff of
the Santa Barbara Writers' Conference, the fiction fellowship panel of the
Arizona Commission on the Arts, and on the editorial staff of the Santa Barbara
Review. Each fall she teaches fiction workshops at the Cuesta College Writers'
Conference. Catherine Ryan Hyde currently lives in Cambria, California, and
writes full-time.
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