Hester Kaplan

Hester Kaplan is an American short story writer, and novelist.

She grew up in Cambridge. She graduated from Barnard College.

She has taught writing at Rhode Island School of Design and teaches at Lesley University.

Her work appeared in Ploughshares, Story, Glimmer Train, and Agni, "The Private Life of Skin", appeared in Southwest Review.

She is the mother of two boys, Alex and Toby.

• 1999 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship
• 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

• Writers corner: Hester Kaplan, National Endowment for the Arts, retrieved 2011-07-01 

• Kinship Theory: A Novel. Back Bay. 2002. ISBN 978-0-316-50426-3. 
• The Edge of Marriage. W. W. Norton & Company. 2001. ISBN 978-0-393-32144-9. 

Anthologies

• Amy Tan (ed.). The Best American Short Stories 1999. ISBN 978-0-395-92684-0. 
• The Best American Short Stories 1998.

Ploughshares

Work appearing in Ploughshares

• "Goodwell", Ploughshares, Spring 1989
• "Companion Animal", Ploughshares, Spring 2003