Kate Folk is the author of a novel, Sky Daddy (Random House 2025), which has been longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel prize and chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the best books of the year. Her story collection, Out There (Random House 2022), 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 venues. A former Stegner Fellow, she has also received fellowships from MacDowell, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and Willapa Bay AiR. She lives in San Francisco and is a lecturer in creative writing at Stanford University.