Kathryn Chetkovich is an award-winning short story writer who received her master’s in creative writing from Stanford, taught briefly at U.C. Santa Cruz, and now lives in the nearby mountain community of Boulder Creek with fellow novelist Jonathan Franzen. Chetkovich gained critical acclaim for her extraordinary essay, Envy, which appeared in the London-based literary magazine Granta in 2003 and subsequently became a minor sensation in Britain and the United States.
Envy charts the inner arc of Chetkovich’s relationship with an unnamed novelist, beginning at MacDowell, where both had gone to work through difficult literary projects. Her other publications include Acts of Love (2009) and Friendly Fire (1998), which won the prestigious John Simmons Short Fiction Award in 1998.
