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 longlisted 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.