One of KATHERINE VAZ’s first published short stories appeared in The Sun, in 1988. Since then, her fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Glimmer Train, the Iowa Review, and the Antioch Review. She lives in Santa Ana, California, and is the author of two novels, Saudade (St. Martin’s Press) and Mariana (HarperCollins/Flamingo, UK). Her short-story collection Fado and Other Stories (University of Pittsburgh Press) won the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her story in the May 2002 issue is dedicated to her friend Mercedes Gomez, a musician who wrote a solo composition about steering a harp through traffic in Mexico City. The story's title was inspired by a child's drawing exhibited a decade ago at an art show in Laguna Beach, California.

Blue Flamingo Looks At Red Water

by Katherine Vaz, May 2002 (Issue 317)

A Little Irish Water Music

by Katherine Vaz, March 1988 (Issue 148)