Katherine Vaz is an American writer. A Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University (2003-9), a 2006-7 Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Fall 2012 Harman Fellow at Baruch College in New York, she is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Saudade, the first contemporary novel about Portuguese-Americans from a major New York publisher. Her second novel, Mariana, was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top 30 International Books of 1998 and has been translated into six languages.
Vaz is a recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Davis Humanities Institute Fellowship. She is the first Portuguese-American to have her work recorded for the Library of Congress, housed in the Hispanic Division.
At MacDowell, she worked on her novel Above the Salt.
Portrait by Beowulf Sheehan
