Kate Folk is the author of the novel SKY DADDY, which is a finalist for the California Book Award in Fiction, has been longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and named a best book of the year by Time, Oprah Daily, Publishers Weekly, Debutiful, Electric Lit, Book Riot, and Vulture. Her story collection, OUT THERE, was a finalist for the California Book Award in First Fiction and has been translated into Spanish and Korean. Her fiction 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 support from MacDowell, the Headlands Center for the Arts, VCCA, the Vermont Studio Center, and Willapa Bay AiR. Her feature adaptation of OUT THERE was selected for the 2024 Black List, and she is currently developing projects for film. Originally from Iowa, she lives in San Francisco and is a lecturer in creative writing at Stanford University.