Catherine Gammon is a fiction writer and Soto Zen priest in the San Francisco Zen Center lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Her novel Sorrow (Braddock Avenue Books, 2013) was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Her novel Isabel out of the Rain was published by Mercury House in 1991, and her fiction has appeared in many literary magazines, among them Ploughshares, the Kenyon Review, New England Review, Iowa Review, and Other Voices. Other recent work appears in Artifice 4.
Fiction
Summer 1995
Guilty
No I wouldn’t die for you. Is that the question? (Is that the measure of love? Don’t we live?) Our friends are disappearing. Not dead. Just gone. Going. We die […]
Fiction
Summer 1993
Letter from an Upstate Prison: An Excerpt from “Sorrow”, a Novel
Dear Nita—, the letter began, I am told that you want to visit me here. This is not a good idea. I know why you want to come. I know […]
Winter 2016
In Absence
Pelican She walked to the beach and her cell phone rang. Odd, she thought—her phone rarely rang, she discouraged anyone, everyone, from using it. The caller was on the East […]