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Zane Kotker
Zane Kotker wrote Bodies in Motion from 8:00 A.M. to noon on Tuesdays and Fridays—when her baby sitter came. Upon publication of this early feminist novel in 1972, The New York Tim...view moreZane Kotker wrote Bodies in Motion from 8:00 A.M. to noon on Tuesdays and Fridays—when her baby sitter came. Upon publication of this early feminist novel in 1972, The New York Times Book Review hailed it as “a persuasive portrait of a talented, independent young photographer who becomes a wife and mother at the cost of her independence…unbitchy, honest, and it makes its point.” The National Endowment for the Arts awarded its author a fiction grant.Her second novel, A Certain Man, tells of Charles (“Arley”) Minor, who preached resurrection in the Congregational churches of rural New England and in the inner cities of Boston and Hartford before, during, and after World War II. “Rigor of thought and aptness of expression found only infrequently in the modern novel,” said The Christian Science Monitor.In White Rising, Kotker evoked King Philip’s War (1675–76) between New England’s colonists and its indigenous Americans. Of this historical novel The New Yorker, said “[Zane Kotker’s] ambitious effort to describe the war from the inside (or, rather, from both insides) is entirely successful.”In Try to Remember, a family is devastated by an accusation of sexual abuse during the four-year wave (1988–1992) of false accusations. “Skillfully shifting among various viewpoints, Kotker renders sympathetic the character and motives of people who find themselves irreconcilably opposed,” said The New York Times Book Review.Zane Kotker has published a dozen short stories and won a Must Read 2012 designation from the Massachusetts Center for the Book for her poetry chapbook, Old Ladies in the Locker Room and Pool. She lives in Western Massachusetts, half-way between her childhood home in Vermont and New York’s Upper West Side where she raised her own children.www.zanekotker.comview less