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Kathleen Boland

Biography

Kathleen Boland

Kathleen Boland’s fiction has appeared in Tin House, Conjunctions and Gulf Coast, among other places, and she has received support from the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center. For almost five years, she worked as the event director for Catapult/Counterpoint Press/Soft Skull Press, where she was responsible for all book tours and major events. Before working in publishing, she earned her MFA from Louisiana State University and received the Robert Penn Warren Thesis Award.

Kathleen Boland

Books by Kathleen Boland

Scavengers
by Kathleen Boland - Fiction, Women's Fiction

After being fired for taking an uncharacteristic risk at her commodities trading job, Bea Macon sublets her New York apartment and books a one-way ticket to stay with her mother, Christy. Usually the responsible one, Bea isn't about to admit exactly why she's suddenly decided to visit, but she isn’t the only one keeping secrets: Christy has a man. She has a map. She has…a username on a forum devoted to unearthing $1 million in buried treasure that an antiquities dealer claims to have hidden somewhere in the western U.S.? Bea is convinced this is just another one of her mother’s wild larks, an elaborate way to refuse to finally grow up. But Christy believes she’s onto something --- and she’s arranged a rendezvous in a rural town called Mercy with the guy she’s been obsessively trading theories with online to prove it.