Kate Folk is the author of Sky Daddy, a California Book Award Silver Medalist. It has also been 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, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and Willapa Bay AiR. Originally from Iowa, she lives in San Francisco and is a lecturer at Stanford University.