Catherine Scherer Mailing Address: 5536 W. Melrose Chicago, IL. 60641 County: Cook Phone: home/work: 773-282-1591 Genre: Fiction/Creative Non-Fiction

Periodical Publications:

• "Passing Fancies," Happy #16, 2001
• "The Blues in the Night," Space and Time #94, Fall 2001
• "I Have Seen in the Aisle of the Supermarket," and "Rules for Writing Right" in Thus Spake the Corpse, An Exquisite Corpse Reader, 1988-1998, vol. 2, Black Sparrow Press, 2000
• "Spent Earth," Margin: Exploying Modern Magical Realism, A Perpetual Anthology online at www.angelfive.com
• "The Boy Born With Zippers," Potomac Review, Winter 1998
• "Spaniards on the Sea," Another Chicago Magazine #32/33, 1997
• "Listen to What I Have to Say, Says Baby" & "A-Man-Among-Men," Sweet Pea Review Vol. 2 #3, 1997

Book Publications:

• "Objects Left too Long in One Place" (chapbook) Permeable Press, 1996
• "Billy Smith in New Guinea" in Arabia in South American: An Apparent Reading (chapbook) Mockersatz Press, 1985

Forthcoming Publications:

• From Bunny and Persey, Junior and Dolly: A Memoir online at the Literary Magazine of the City College of Chicago, December 2001

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council, 1992
• Illinois Arts Council Award, 1988

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

• DiFalco Studio Gallery, Oct. 20, 2001
• "A Spy in the House of Old Age," at Chicago Matters, March 1998
• Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ-FM, April 12, 1998

Recent Workshops:

• Nancy Becketts Memoir Writing Workshop, Lakesdie Writing Studio, ongoing
• Mel Livatino, Creative Writing Class, Truman College, City Colleges of Chicago, ongoing

Present Employment:

• Chicago Public Library

Preferred Audience:

Willing to travel:

• Conditionally willing to travel