Bio

Kate Folk is the author of the novel Sky Daddy, which received the California Book Awards’ Silver Medal in Fiction, was 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, Granta, and The Baffler, among other publications. A former Stegner Fellow, she’s also received support from MacDowell and the Headlands Center for the Arts. As a screenwriter, she is developing projects for film and television, and her feature adaptation of Out There was included on the 2024 Black List. Her second novel, Use Your Illusion, will be published by Random House in 2028.

Academic Appointments

  • Lecturer, English

2026-27 Courses

All Publications

  • Sky Daddy Folk, K. Random House. 2025
  • Out There Folk, K. Random House. 2022