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Kaya Oakes is an American nonfiction writer and journalist from the San Francisco Bay Area of California.

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She was born in Oakland and earned an MFA in creative writing at Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga. [1]

Since 1999, Oakes has taught writing at the University of California, Berkeley. [2] She also is a senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches, a contributing writer for America magazine, and has written for The Guardian , Foreign Policy , and On Being .

Her first book, Telegraph, a collection of poetry published in 2007, received the Transcontinental Poetry Prize from Pavement Saw Press in 2008. [3] Her nonfiction book, Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture, was published by Henry Holt in June 2009. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] She is an editor for the religion website Killing the Buddha. [13]

In 2002, she co-founded Kitchen Sink Magazine , which received the Utne Independent Press Award for Best New Magazine in 2003. [14] Oakes edited and wrote for Kitchen Sink until it ended its print run in 2007. She has been the recipient of teaching fellowships from the Mellon Faculty Institute [15] and the Bay Area Writing Project, as well as a writing prize from the Academy of American Poets. Oakes has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in nonfiction.

In her memoir, Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church, published by Counterpoint in June 2012, Oakes, who had been raised Catholic, recounts how, after years of proudly calling herself an atheist and despite her frustration with Catholic conservatism, she returned to the Catholic faith. [16]

Oakes published her fourth book, The Nones Are Alright: A New Generation of Seekers, Believers, and Those In Between, with Orbis Books in 2015. It was a finalist for the 2015 Religion News Association best book award. The book examines the decline in participation in organized religion in America by profiling individuals who either fell away from or embraced religion. [17]

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  2. ↑ "College Writing Programs". University of California, Berkeley.
  3. ↑ "Kaya Oakes "Telegraph"". Pavement Saw Books.
  4. ↑ "Kaya Oakes". MacMillan.
  5. ↑ Loeb, Eryn (2010-08-16). "'Slanted and Enchanted,' by Kaya Oakes". San Francisco Chronicle.
  6. ↑ "'Slanted and Enchanted' by Kaya Oakes conjures the indie culture and its consequences". Cleveland Plain Dealer. 28 June 2009.
  7. ↑ Bigge, Ryan (2009-07-19). "More than skinny jeans". Toronto Star.
  8. ↑ "Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture by Kaya Oakes". Bookslut.
  9. ↑ "Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture by Kaya Oakes". Popmatters.
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  13. ↑ "Kaya Oakes". 29 July 2022.
  14. ↑ "Winners of the 2003 Utne Independent Press Awards". Utne Independent Press.
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  16. ↑ "CWP Lecturer's Book Praised by Publishers Weekly". University of California Berkeley College Writing Programs
  17. ↑ McCarthy, Christine E. (2016-11-05). "The Nones Are Alright: A New Generation of Believers, Seekers, and Those in Between by Kaya Oakes (review)". American Catholic Studies. 127 (3): 81–83. doi:10.1353/acs.2016.0052. ISSN   2161-8534. S2CID   151819991.
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