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Hester Kaplan named 2022 Quarry Farm Fellow
Hester Kaplan named 2022 Quarry Farm Fellow by The Center for Mark Twain Studies for her new book in-progress, Twice Born: How Mark Twain Helped Me Find My Father
Award-Winning Writer
Recent awards include the Salamander Fiction Prize, the McGinnis Ritchie Award for Non-Fiction, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Recent Publications
Unravished
The Tell
Kinship Theory
Acclaim for Hester Kaplan’s Recent Publications
Unravished
The Tell
Kinship Theory
UNRAVISHED
a new collection of stories, from Ig Publishing:
Masterfully written and emotionally packed, the stories that make up Unravished, the new collection from award-winning author Hester Kaplan, seduce and startle, and remind us of the shifting ways we choose to narrate our own lives.
Praise for Unravished
Top Indie Fiction by Library Journal
“Kaplan delivers an exceptional collection with beautifully rendered stories for and about grown-ups. The second wife of a bombastic older man fends off neighbors distraught by his building plans, which could hurt the environment (and maybe the neighborhood?); a man plays father to his girlfriend’s son at the circus. For readers, not just short story fans, who like fiction focusing smartly on contemporary adult relationships.” ~ Library Journal
Interviews, Reviews, & Multimedia
THE PROVIDENCE PHOENIX: Hester Kaplan’s The Tell is captivating
In her first novel in 10 years, The Tell (Harper Perennial), Providence writer and educator Hester Kaplan tackles the familiar territory of marriage and relationships she has previously explored in the award-winning short story collection, The Edge of Marriage (1999), and her novel, Kinship Theory (2001).
Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb
Hester Kaplan is the author of the new short story collectionUnravished. She also has writtenanother story collection, The Edge of Marriage, and two novels, The Tell and Kinship Theory. She teaches at Lesley University, and she lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Femamom: An Interview With Hester Kaplan, The Author Of “The Tell”
Hester Kaplan writes about marriage. Whether it’s stories about couples trying to figure out where they stand in a relationship with her award-winning The Edge of Marriage or most recently, with her new novel,The Tell, she writes about nuances that exist under the surface–the kind that make you question your own relationship after you’ve read her work.