Kate Folk is the author of Sky Daddy (Random House 2025), which has been longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel prize 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 (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.