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Well, Kate is exactly this.

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She's an international
treasure, and she

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is a heroine of a very long
and beautiful fairy tale.

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From the beautiful
literary journal

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she founded and continues to
edit, "The Fairy Tale Review,"

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to the three anthologies
of fiction and essays

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that she has put
out over the past,

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I guess, 10 years or so, one
to her own exceptional creative

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work.

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She has with fervor
and single mindedness

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helped bring the fairy
tale front and center

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in any intelligent conversation
of contemporary fiction.

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Currently working half the
year as an associate professor

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and writer in resident at
the University of Louisiana

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in Lafayette, Kate is the author
of a trilogy of novels called

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"The Complete Tales of Ketzia
Gold," "The Complete Tales

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of Merry Gold," and, coming
out next year with FC 2,

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"The Complete Tales
of Lucy Gold."

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Her most recent book of
fiction is a collection

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of stories, "Horse,
Flower, Bird," which

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came out just a mere couple
of months ago I guess.

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An absolute must-read-- just
a beautiful illustrated gem

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of a work that came out
with Coffee House Press.

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And she's also written
a book for children--

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"The Girl in the Castle
Inside the Museum--"

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And has two other children's
books forthcoming.

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She's a very busy person.

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She edited these two
anthologies I referred to.

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One is called "Brothers
and Beasts," which

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is a men's take on
fairy tales and the role

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of fairy tales in their
lives, and "Mirror

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Mirror on the Wall," which
focuses on that other gender.

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Her most recent anthology is
a collection of new fiction

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and takes a fairy tale
as a starting point

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and then takes it
wherever it will go.

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One of the interesting things
that Kate has done recently,

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and I just thought it would
be a fun and productive time

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to mention this, is that she
recently put together a letter

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to the National Book
Foundation asking

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why they refuse to permit
fairy tales as entries

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into the competition.

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And she's gotten a lot
of notice for that.

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She and her co-writer,
who's Maria Tatar,

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wrote this beautiful letter.

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And you can friend it or
whatever-- like it on Facebook.

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And that'll be a
really good thing

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for it and for the fairy tale.

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We're looking forward
still to the response.

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There's kind of been some
murmurs and anxious confusion

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on their part.

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But they haven't
done anything yet.

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But we think they might, and
it'll be all because of Kate.

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And so much of this is
all because of Kate.

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So without further
ado, Kate Bernheimer.

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