# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kathleen-alcala
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:30:57.586Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kathleen-alcala"
name: "Kathleen Alcalá"
slug: "kathleen-alcala"
description: "Kathleen Alcalá is the author of a short-story collection, three novels set in the American Southwest and nineteenth-century Mexico, and a collection of essays. She teaches creative writing at workshops and programs in Washington state and elsewhere, including Seattle University, the University of New Mexico and Richard Hugo House."
tagline: "American novelist, essayist, short story writer, teacher of creative writing"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kathleen_Alcala.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-08-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.57
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.937401333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/katkat_alcala"
    handle:    "katkat_alcala"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kathleen_Alcal%C3%A1"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "كاثلين ألكالا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "كاثلين الكالا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Alcal%C3%A1"
    title: "Kathleen Alcalá"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Alcal%C3%A1"
    title: "Kathleen Alcalá"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%94%D5%A5%D5%A9%D5%AC%D5%AB%D5%B6_%D4%B1%D5%AC%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%A1"
    title: "Քեթլին Ալկալա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%94%E1%83%A2%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C_%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90"
    title: "კეტლინ ალკალა"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6376650"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump