Katherine Tracy
Education:
B.A., B.A., M.A. Southeastern Louisiana University
Contact information:
256D Peltier Hall
Phone: 985.449.7189
E-mail: katherine.tracy@nicholls.edu
Although a New Orleans native, Kat has lived in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Virginia, and southeastern France. She now lives in Thibodaux with her husband Chuck Dellert. She is also the mother of two grown sons and a daughter, and the grandmother of three beautiful grand daughters. Before joining Nicholls in fall 2007, she taught English at NMSU-A. Along with her major studies of English and French, she earned minors in journalism, creative writing, and technical writing. Her work experience also includes various positions in oil and gas, stringer and reporter for a few newspapers, along with editing and book designing.
She has published, designed, and/or edited more than a dozen books to include poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She edits L’Intrigue, a literary webzine that she calls a work in progress, where she compiles and publishes the works of writers (new and published) worldwide. She published, designed, and edited the anthology In The Eye: A Collection of Writings for Thunder Rain Publishing (2007). All profits of this anthology are donated to HABITAT FOR HUMANITY in New Orleans to help in the rebuilding process from Hurricane Katrina.
She was the featured guest poet in The Magnolia Quarterly (Winter 2008). Her poems have appeared in the anthologies: Mountain High, Southern Mist, (Old Mountain Press, 2008), Night Whispers, Sand, Sea, & Sail (OMP, 2007), In the Arms of Words: Poems for Tsunami Relief (Foothills Publishing 2005) renamed In the Arms of Words: Poems for Disaster Relief in its second publishing (Sherman Asher Publishing 2005), The Falling Rain (2000), Carvings in Stone (1996), and Beyond Magnolias: A Collection of Poetry in True Conscience (1997). Her short story “Les Terroristes, Ils Vivent Parmi Nous” appeared in Le Tintamarre, 18.2 Bicentennial Issue (2002).
She edited and designed Education Through Her Eyes: Value, Belief and Experience in Women’s Jail Based Education [ISBN 9781933146331] (Academica Press 2008) by Dr. Alexandria Mageehon and also worked on The Gar Diaries [ISBN 9780979757297] (Community Home Press 2008) by Louis Bourgeois. Most recently, she published the author Norman German’s novel A Savage Wisdom [ISBN 97809654569-6-8] (Thunder Rain Publishing 2008).
She has taught students of various cultures including Native Americans, and from the countries of China, VietNam, Spain, Mexico, Germany, India, Serbia, Ukraine, Nepal, among others. She also believes that we learn from each other and stresses a collaborative, interactive class. Kat teaches English 101 and 102 (freshmen English), English 368 (Technical Writing), English 255 (Novels and Short Stories), amd English 256 (Drama and Poetry). She is an editorial advisor for Mosaic, a student publication at Nicholls; a committee member for Freshmen and Sophomore English, and a committee member for Jubilee Writers’ Conference. She is the webmaster for http://www.jubileewritersconference.org and the website of LCTE at http://www.nicholls.edu/lcte/.