About
Kate Gale
In
1994 Kate Gale founded Red Hen Press. The press was started as
a collective and began to publish Kate and her fellow writers:
Marlene Joyce Pearson, Ricardo Means Ybarra, Benjamin Saltman
and Angela Ball. Later the press was reorganized as a non-profit
501(c)3 and began to build an active writing community in Los
Angeles. In the wake of the closing of Black Sparrow Press and
Sun and Moon, Red Hen Press became one of the largest indendent
presses in Southern California. They publish twenty titles a year
of poetry, literary fiction and non-fiction. Red Hen Press established
a Writing in the Schools Program funded by the city, the county,
Ahmanson, Dwight Stuart Foundation, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Their reading series at the Ruskin Art Club and the Geffen Playhouse
hosts such writers as Carolyn See, John Rechy, C.D. Wright, Li-Young
Lee, Joy Harjo, Chris Abani, Al Young, Robert Scheer, Paul Cummins,
and Marvin Bell. Building community in Los Angeles allowed Kate
to live life as a literary provaceteur, hosting and creating change
in literary life. Kate lives in Los Angeles with her husband Mark
E. Cull and two of their children. She is the Managing Editor
of Red Hen Press, the Editor of the Los Angeles Review and the
President of the American Composers Forum Los Angeles. She served
as the 2005-2006 President of PEN USA and serves on the Board
of A Room of Her Own Foundation.
|
