Kate Trueblood understands the complication of balancing a career and family. She is the mother of two children, a writer, and an Associate Professor at Western Washington University.

Trueblood’s most recent novel, The Baby Lottery, was chosen to appear as a Book Sense Pick in 2007, and she was selected for the Jack Straw Writer’s Series in the Northwest. This book deals with many of the issues facing women today, including pregnancy vs. abortion, career vs. family, and marriage vs. divorce. The story follows five old college friends as they struggle to come to terms with their lives.

Her first book, The Sperm Donor’s Daughter, received a Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize 2000, and it was reviewed favorably by The Seattle Times Post-Intelligencer, The San Jose Mercury News, and New York Magazine, among others. As a writer, Trueblood likes the thorny questions medical developments post for human identity. Her father, who was a medical resident at the L.A. County Hospital before Roe v. Wade was passed, worked the O.B. Infection Ward, where women with botched abortions ended up if they didn’t die first. His views as a result of that experience have had a lasting effect on Trueblood’s writing.

Currently, Trueblood is working on a new collection of stories, The Medicated Marriage. She has been researching pharmaceutical corporations’ efforts to sell blockbuster drugs and the effect of that on the medical profession. She is concerned that people’s problems are being redefined as diseases in order to encompass a greater percentage of the population. In the stories she is writing, families struggle to recognize spiritual epiphanies amidst the diagnoses.

Prior to publication of The Sperm Donor’s Daughter, Kathryn Trueblood co-edited two anthologies of multicultural literature, The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards (W.W. Norton 1992); also Homeground (Blue Heron 1996), which won the Jurors’ Choice Award at Bumbershoot, the Seattle City Arts Festival. Her stories and articles have been published in Poets & Writers Magazine, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Publishers Weekly, The Seattle Weekly, Glimmer Train, The Seattle Review, The Cimarron Review, Zyzzyva, and others.

Trueblood has worked in editorial for both mainstream and small press publishers–from the adult trade division at Random House to the West Coast’s first feminist press, Shameless Hussy. Her qualifications include a B.A. in English from U.C. Berkeley, a certificate from the Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Washington.