Kate Folk is the author of the novel Sky Daddy, which received the California Book Awards’ Silver Medal in Fiction, is a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, and was long-listed for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her story collection, Out There, was a finalist for the California Book Award in First Fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, n+1, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, One Story, Granta, and The Baffler, among other publications. She is the recipient of a Stegner Fellowship, along with fellowships from MacDowell and the Headlands Center for the Arts. Originally from Iowa, she lives in San Francisco and is a lecturer at Stanford University. Her second novel, Use Your Illusion, will be published by Random House in 2028.
