Katherine Arnoldi: |
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----------Katherine Arnoldi is a writer, graphic novelist. artist, teacher, and activist for equal rights to education for teen mothers.
 2008 PhD in Creative Writing, Binghamton
University, New York2004 Certificate in Graphic Design, The New School Computer Instruction Center, NY 1989 M.A. Creative Writing, City College, CUNY, New York, New York 1979 B.A. Art, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
 8/07 All Things
Are Labor, short stories published
by University of Massachusetts Press9/99 A Gathering of the Tribes, excerpt from novel, Melanie Farkle. 9/98 The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom (graphic memoir) Hyperion Press, NY, NY. 2/98 Blue Collar Review, short story, " We Are Not Seeing Ourselves Here" 1997 Five Minute Fiction edited by Roberta Allen included my short story, "Canton, Ohio." (Story Press: Cincinnati) 1995 Room of One's Own, 18:1, Spring (Vancouver, BC, Canada). Short story: "Seventeen" The World #51, November, 1995: short story: "M" 1994 Longshot #16, Spring: Essay, "Tribute to Bellevue" Fiction #12 (Winter), Short story, "X" 1993 The Quarterly #25 (Spring). New York: Vintage: short story "All Things Are Full of Labor" ONTHEBUS #13 (Winter) edited by Jack Grapes (Los Angelos:Bombshelter Press): short story, "Ma Ripple" 1992 Red Tape: Tragicomix edited by Michael Carter: short story, "Artist Case History: Melanie Farkle" 1991 A Gathering of the Tribes edited by Steve Cannon (New York): short story "Our Landlord" The Quarterly #18 (Summer): short story, "Canton, Ohio, 1956" New Observations #82: short story, "Yonder's Wall" 1990 The Quarterly #15 (Fall): short story, "Crosscut Saw" The Quarterly #14 (Summer): short story, "To Q from Katherine Arnoldi" 1989 The Quarterly #12 (Winter): short story, "To Q from Linda Vitale."Original title: "How I Became a Single Parent by Linda Vitale". |
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 2005-6 Essay
on Mothersmovement.org website: "Fair means Fair: My Fight
for Equal Access to Education for Teen Moms" Essay in The Essential HipMaMa:Writing from the Cutting Edge of Parenting, edited by Ariel Gore, Seal Press. 2004 "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Education," essay, You Look Too Young to Be a Mom, ed. by Deborah Davis, (Penguin, NY) "Thanks, Mom," in Big Apple Parent, May issue, continuing to present "Thanks, Mom" in Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts, Eds. Bee Lavender and Maia Rossini, (Soft Skull Press) 2003 "DIA Beacon: Not Minimalist Enough, (Section 8 and real estate development)," Tribes web magazine, Tribes.org "Thanks Mom," Illustration/ Cartoon in HipMaMa 2002 "She Has Small Successes," Catalog, Women Cartoonists from the USA, Secession Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 2000 "Tribute to the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe," Tribes#9. 2000 "Single Moms of the World Unite," in World War 3, New York. 1999 "How I Became a Cartoonist," HipMaMa, Oakland, CA. 1994 "College is Fun" in The Welfare Mother's Voice edited by Pat Gowans (Milwaukee, WI) Fall. 1992 "Single Mother's Bill of Rights" in The Welfare Mother's Voice Summer. "Is Equal Access to the University of Arkansas Denied Single Parents?" The Grapevine, Fayetteville, AR and also in The Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock. |
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2008-9 Fulbright to Paraguay 2008 Link Award, Binghamton University 2006 Finalist for the Ohio State University Short Fiction Prize 2006 Juniper Prize in Fiction: The University of Massachusetts will publish my collection of short stories: All Things Are Full of Labor 2005 Newhouse Fiction Award: SUNY Binghamton, also a Scholar's Incentive Grant for the doctoral program, Creative Writing 1999 The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom chosen as one of the Top Ten Books of 1999 by Entertainment Weekly 1999 American Library Association Award: Top Ten Quick Pick for Young Adults. Also Notable Book Award 1999 Nominated for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in the Graphic Novel. 1997 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award in Printmaking, Drawing, Artist's Books. 1990 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award in Fiction. 1988 DeJur Award in Fiction Transatlantic Fiction Award, Henfield Foundation, NY, NY 1987 Michael Tuck Fellowship Award / Back to top
Readings throughout New York since 1987: Dixon Place, St. Mark's Church, Knitting Factory, Lincoln Center Serious Fun Festival, Nuyorican Poet's Cafe (Grand Slam winner of 1991). Featured reading at the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe on NPR (5/7/91) |
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03/07: Article in Eagle Eye, and The Express, Lockhaven, PA about my visit to University of Pennsylvania, Lock Haven 10/06: interview by Celina DeLeon on feministing.com Article in the Lafayette College paper, about my visit to the Third Street Alliance in Easton, PA. 2005: interview by Deborah Harper on psychjourney.com 2004: The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom featured in Going Graphic: Comics at Work in the Multilingual Classroom by Stephen Cary (Heinemann Press) 2001 "How Comic Books Can Change the Way Our Students See Literature" by Rocco Versaci, The English Journal, 11/2001 10/99 Redbook magazine: "The Amazing Triumph of a Teenage Mom," -Joan Smith. 6/99 MS. magazine: "Katherine Arnoldi: Single Mom Super Hero"-Dylan Siegler 4/99 Bust #12 :"This book is beautiful, accessible and soulful."-Meg Weber 4/99 American Book Review :"Dada at Midnight"-Jim Feast. 2/17/99 The New York Times, "A Mother: Young Single and Heroic" -David Gonzalez  2/99 Hip
Mama "If you are a teen mom or abuse survivor, it is
a must-read" - Ariel Gore.1/28/99 Tony Isabella's Online Cartoon Review: "I ended up voting it as my favorite graphic novel in the CBG Fan Awards. Yep, it's that good." 1/28/99 The Star Ledger , "Reaching for the Stars: An Author Uses Her Story to Inspire Other Single Moms"- Mark McGarrity 12/25/98 Entertainment Weekly Best of 1998: The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom was choosen as the tenth best book: "Not only did she beat back a grim fate, but the bright, redemptive way she shares her story is proof that one evocative line drawing can be worth a thousand points of psychobabble. If you're looking for a good cleansing cry--and a book that actually makes you think about the world instead of just escaping it--this is the year's best." 12/21/98 New York : "In Print: Singled Out" : "...the scary, funny, ultimately heroic story of Arnoldi's struggle to make a happy life out of a very raw deal."- Ariel Levy 12/14/98 Austin Chronicle : "I can only attribute the hot tears I shed while reading it to the power of Arnoldi's moving, triumphant story." -Roseana Auten 12/98 Redbook : "Here's the real thing: A superhero whose magic cape is faith." -Dawn Raffel 12/98 Seventeen "It's a refreshingly nonlecturey picture of what it's really like to be a teen mom." 11/18/98 Christian Science Monitor , "A Teen Mom's Path Out of Abuse" -Marilyn Gardner 11/98 Associated Press, "Single Mother Turns to Cartoons to Tell Story, Help Others" -Jill Priluck 11/98 Elle, "Me and My Baby," : "Arnoldi displays grit and a compassion that would be admirable in any situation, and that becomes wondrous given the harem- scarum circumstances of her painful but ultimately fruitful life." - Lisa Shea 9/18/98 Entertainmenty Weekly, "That's how poignant, immediate, and good it is: pictorial autobiography, redemptive fable, and purest testimony to the strength of motherly love." -AJ 9/98 MS, "This memoir in cartoon form is fast-paced, moving and entertaining." 8/17/98 Publisher's Weekly, "Teen Mom Finds Voice, Writes Book" : "Writing in affecting, straightforward prose and drawing with an awkward but powerful , child- like simplicity..." - Calvin Reid 9/98 Book Report: "A wonderfully delightful memoir that compels the heart and eye with its courage." 2/9/94 The Village Voice, "Arnoldi's humorous, minimalist fiction..." -Evelyn McDonnel 9/5/90 The Village Voice, "Arnoldi is a more recent chronicler of the downtown-and- out..." -Evelyn McDonnel 10/23/88 The New York Times "'A Starer' held the attention because of the way the members of its large cast of actors and dancers were required to be comic, grotesque and poignant." -Jack Anderson (about a play written by Katherine Arnoldi, produced and choreographed by Howard Fireheart) |
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8/26/99 Special on CNN's Arts and Entertainment Program. 5/13/99 Tom Brokow and the NBC Nightly News: "The Family," a special about my work helping single moms obtain equal access to education. 3/31/99 Time Warner Cable:Robert Nieto Show 12/5/98 National Public Radio Weekend Edition: an interview with Jackie Lydon. 10/11/99 Cablevision: The Larry Davidson Show 9/18/98 WOR : Joan Hamburg show 9/9/98 ABC News 9/7/98 The Today Show: interview by Ann Curry. 9/2/98 WNYC: The Lenny Lopate Show 5/7/91 National Public Radio, "All Things Considered": featured reader at the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe.
2006 She Draws Comics: 100 Years of Women Cartoonists at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, New York City 06/04 Northern Manhattan Art Stroll, Mediterranean Cafe, Paintings of Innwood Hill Park 07/03 Ladyfest Bristol, UK, Exhibition of Women Cartoonists 01/03 She Draws Comics: Great Women Cartoonists, Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA 10/02 Mujeres/ Women Cartoonists, 25th Annual Comic Conference, Gijon, Spain. 4/02 Women Cartoonists in the US, Secession Gallery, Vienna, Austria. 11/00 Bluestocking Bookstore, NYC, WorldWar3, Group Cartoonists Show. 9/99 Bluestocking Bookstore, New York, NY: "Women Cartoontists Show," curated by Sabrina Jones. 6/97 Tribes Gallery, NY: "Poets and Painters" a collaboration with Ron Taylor. 4/94 The New Museum: "The Bad Girl's Show" included The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom
5/08: Millay Colony, NY 7/04 Blue Mountain Center, NY 7/99 Edward Albee Center, Montauk, NY 2/99 Hedgebrook, Langely, WA 5/98 Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain, NY 8/96 Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain, NY 11/95 McDowell Colony, Petersborough, NH
Represented since 1992 by Sterling Lord Literistic, 65 Bleecker Street, New York, New York, 10012. Phone: 212 780 6050, Fax: 212 780 0860. Agent: Neeti Madan / Back to top
2004-2006 Kennedy Marshall Company (Seabiscuit) purchases option rights for The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom/ Director: Scott Elliott (Map of the World) Music: Nellie McKay (Get Away from Me) 1999-2000 Kathleen Kennedy of the Kennedy Marshall Company purchased the film option rights for The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom |
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02/07: Spoke at the University of Pennsylvania at Lock Haven. 10/2006: Spoke at Lafayette College, PA and the Third Street Alliance, Easton, PA. where homeless teen moms came from three organizations for an evening talk about equal rights to education for teen moms. 5/26/ 2006: Spoke to teen moms in GED programs at the Care Center, Mt Holyoke, MA 2006 Started the Katherine Arnoldi Scholarship Fund for Teenage Mothers For information about The Katherine Arnoldi Scholarship Fund for Teenage Mothers click here (Charitable Trust with Calvert Fund) which will give a Scholarship award every year to a teen mom graduating from a GED program in New York City and who is going on to college. 2006: Graphic Artist/ Art Director for The Bridge, Indymedia paper, Binghamton, NY 3/05: Participated in the HipMaMa East Coast book tour. 12/04: Volunteer Teacher of the Graphic Novel at the Thoroughgood Marshall Academy, Harlem, New York City 5/04 "Fresh Thinking" Panel, PEN Children's Literature Symposium, NYC 2/04 Co-chaired Art Auction and Benefit for NY Dennis Kucinich for President 9/03 Taught English as a Second Language at El Centro de Trabajadores, free English classes for immigrants. Volunteer teacher of the graphic novel at the Gilda Radner Center, New York City. 3/03 Producer, Info-Radio, Radio Show on WBAI, 99.5 FM, NYC 3/02 Producer, Women's Rights Now, Radio Show on WBAI 99.5 FM, NYC. 11/01 "Counter Publics in the Age of Bush," panel, American Studies National Conference, Washington, DC 11/3-5/00 Organized and hosted Single Mom Summit at the Blue Mountain Center, NY. 9/28/00 Featured speaker at the New York City Comptroller's Task Force on Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting and Prevention at the City Municipal Building Auditorium. 6/28/00 Featured speaker at Teen Parent Conference for all teens in Massachusetts who are living in the Teen Living programs, Worchester, MA, sponsored by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services. 6/14/00 Featured speaker at University of San Diego's Cal-Learn Program's GED graduation ceremonies. 10/99 Spoke at Texas A and M University's Women Studies, Sociology Department and at various teen centers in Austin, Texas. I go to GED programs throughout New York and the country talking to teen moms about ecucational opportunites: Alliance for Young Families in Boston. MA, Pregnant Teen High School in Raleigh, NC, TASA program in New York.
2005-8: Teaching Assistant/ SUNY Binghamton English Department 2000-06: Teaching the Graphic Novel and Memoir Writing at the Open Center, New York City and teaching the graphic novel to students in libraries throughout the Bronx and Manhattan. 2004: Adjunct Professor College of New Rochelle's Rosa Parks Campus, 125th Street, Harlem, NYC. Teaching throughout Manhattan and the Bronx in the libraries as a guest artist. 1999-2002 Adjunct Professor in English, Mercy College's extension in Upper Manhattan. 1991-1999 Originator and Facilitator, Single Mom College Program: bringing college and financial aid information to GED programs throughout New York City (Volunteer Work) 1987-1991 Adjunct Professor in English at City College, Borough of Manhattan Community College. 1984-1986 Graduate Assistantship teaching composition classes in the English Department at North Carolina State University. Back to top
 (see above-public
speaking)11/3-5/00 Organized the Single Mom Summit at the
Blue Mountain Center, New York, bringing together grassroots
organizers, administrators, academics, social workers, writers
and people who work with and are concerned about single moms.1999 After meeting Victoria Alzepedi in Boston at a Title IX convention, I proposed an idea to New York Civil Liberties Union: to begin a class action suit against the New York City Board of Education for Title IX violations against teen moms. I worked with the New York Civil Liberties Program's Reproductive Rights Project to begin an intiative to protect teen mom's rights in the high schools in New York State. I designed and donated a post card design entitled, "If You Are a Pregnant or Parenting Teen, You Have a Right to Stay in School." This project has since been adopted by California, Connecticut and Massachusetts Civil Liberties Unions. 1986-present Started and implemented the Single Mom College Program: visiting GED programs, pregnant teen centers and homeless centers throughout New York City providing college guidance counseling to encourage teen moms to pursue their equal rights to education. 1997 Started the Lower East Side Tenant's Union, designing its logo and other materials. 1997-1998 Started an organization, working with Wasim Lone at Good Old Lower East Side Tenant Organizing Center, called "The Adjacents" to protest illegal and unauthorized construction on the Lower East Side. By organizing tenant associations in buildings adjacent to the construction and by working through the courts and with pro bono engineers we were able to stop the potentially devastating effects of irresponsible developers. 1997-1998 President, Tenant's Association of 623 East 11th Street. 1994-1996 The Single Mom College Program was housed at Charas Community Center on the Lower East Side. During this time I not only went around to GED programs and other community centers, I had a home base and office at Charas. Back to top |
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PEN Writers, Natural Resources Defense Council, Academy of American Poets, Friends of New York Foundation of the Arts, Friends of Hedgebrook, Modern Language Association, A Gathering of the Tribes, Appalachian Mountain Club, Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, Friends of LuLu (Women Cartoonist Organization). |
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About Katherine Arnoldi: pro-choice and for the rights of all humans: to safety, to medical care, to education, to fairness in the courts and to fairness in employment and housing.
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