“The Lost Goddess” at The Mommy Monologues

  Commissioned by SkirtsAfire Her Arts Festival, The Mommy Monologues are a collection of short plays by women about motherhood. Featuring monologues by Beth Graham, Katherine Koller, Annette Loiselle, Conni Massing, Nicole Moeller, Mieko Ouchi, Dana Rayment, Glenda Stirling, Michele Vance Hehir and Cat Walsh, and a song by Andrea House.  Directed by Glenda Stirling, Production design by Tessa Stamp, Sound design...

Art Lessons in 10 Best

Read a review of Edmonton books published in 2016, including Art Lessons by Katherine Koller, in this feature from the Edmonton Journal, December 10, 2016....

Postmedia Profile on Katherine Koller

Read a profile here on Katherine Koller and her new novel, Art Lessons, published Oct 27, 2016, in the Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Province, Calgary Herald, Saskatoon Star-Pheonix, Regina Leader Post and the Montreal Gazette. Also read a review here from the Winnipeg Free Press:”Koller’s ability to entertain through her writing is...

Art Lessons book launches

Here are the dates and places confirmed for the launch of Art Lessons: Sunday, Oct 2 at 3 pm: St. Albert Public Library, Forsyth Hall. For this event, ten student artists will draw while I read. Free registration at http://sapl.libcal.com/event/2653340 Thursday, Oct 6 at 7:30 pm: Belgravia Community League (116 St and 74 Ave), Edmonton. There will be a special artist guest, refreshments and book signing in the...

Guest blog about developing Art Lessons

Katherine Koller guest blogs about developing her manuscript Art Lessons with her mother-daughter book club as a focus group. Questions she asked the girls and their moms are included for book club discussion at https://motherdaughterbookclub.com/blog/, Sept 4,...

Sustainable Me online

Sustainable Me is a six-part web doc series written by Katherine Koller for Company of Women on the Screen and TELUS Optik TV. See what Edmontonians are doing right now right here to make life more sustainable for everyone. Featuring host Paula Humby, Sustainable Me is directed and produced by Terri Wynnyk with associate producer Jamie Pratt, cinematographer  Wes Doyle, sound engineer Ian Doyle and editors Julia...

Art Lessons chapter preview

Hear Katherine read a chapter, “Tree Day,” here (13 min):  Tree_Day_Version2 (Sound design by Chronopia Communications.) Art Lessons by Katherine Koller is in the voice of Cassie,  who discovers the transformative power of visual art in herself and on the lives of others, from a seven-year-old to seventeen. Cassie is in a family of sports nuts, she’s a loner, and easily distracted by boyfriends but in...

Voices of the Land: The Seed Savers and Other Plays

Voices of the Land: The Seed Savers and Other Plays by Katherine Koller are plays about transformation in the western Canadian landscape:  prairie, lake and woods. An element of the natural world is present in each play, not only as setting, but as character, sometimes voiced by the human characters, sometimes not, but always present.  These plays, which range from romantic comedy to drama, and from one-act to...