Kate Folk is the author of Out There (Random House '22), a Kirkus best book of 2022 and finalist for the California Book Award in First Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, One Story, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and Zyzzyva, among others. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University, she's also received support from MacDowell, Willapa Bay AiR, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her first novel, Sky Daddy, is forthcoming from Random House in 2025. Originally from Iowa, she lives in San Francisco.

Email: kate.folk@gmail.com

Literary Agent: Emma Patterson at Brandt & Hochman
EPatterson@bromasite.com

Film/TV: Will Watkins at CAA
will.watkins@caa.com

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