Catherine E. McKinley
1999-2000 Fulbright Student Scholarship

“ Catherine E. McKinley is the recipient of a Fulbright Student Scholarship in Ghana for the 1999-2000 academic year, for her ‘impressive accomplishments and leadership skills,’ according to Alan Schechter, Chairman, the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Ms. McKinley is Associate Director of the Publishing Certificate Program at the College.

She received her bachelor of arts degree from Sarah Lawrence in 1989 and was a Graduate Fellow at the Africana Studies & Research Center at Cornell University from 1989-1991. She attended the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, for a special year of undergraduate study in African and Caribbean Literature.

Author of the memoir, The Book of Sarahs (William Morrow, 2000), Ms. McKinley has served as associate literary agent at Marie Brown Associates, as literary programmer at Writers in Performance/ Manhattan Theatre Club, and as editor of the anthology Afrekete (Anchor Books, 1995).

She is also recipient if a New York Foundation for the Arts fiction grant, and an Audre Lorde Estate Memorial grant.”
(CCNY, March, 2000)