Aliens & Other Stories
The characters in Kathleen Wheaton’s linked stories are exiles-from their native countries, their families, their objects of desire. Political refugees from Argentina’s “dirty war,” survivors of a Cuban shipwreck and of Franco’s Spain all navigate life as foreigners, whether in Madrid, Buenos Aires or suburban Washington, D.C. With wry, nuanced compassion, Wheaton follows these resilient people as they reconcile the absurdities of contemporary life with a legacy of dislocation, loss and longing.
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Meet the Author
Kathleen Wheaton
Kathleen Wheaton lived in Bethesda, Maryland for twenty-five years working as a journalist and as a Spanish and Portuguese interpreter. Her collection, Aliens and Other Stories, received the 2013 WWPH Fiction Prize; she was president of the press for eight years. She is a 2024-2026 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.