Kathryn Kramer
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Kathryn Kramer has published three novels—Sweet Water (Knopf, 1998); Rattlesnake Farming (Knopf, 1992); A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space (Knopf, 1984)—and a memoir, Missing History: The Covert Education of a Child of the Great Books (Threshold Way, 2015).
Kramer is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Residency, and a Vermont Arts Council Grant, among others.
She taught writing and literature for many years at the university level, for the last twenty-two years at Middlebury College. She grew up in Maryland and New Mexico and spent many summers in Vermont, where she has lived full-time since 1990.
Kathryn’s Books
Kathryn Kramer
July 28, 2026
“A mischievous love song to a Vermont village.”
—Stephen Long, author of Thirty-Eight: The Hurricane that Transformed New England
