Kate Folk

Kate Folk
Born	Iowa City, Iowa, US
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, essayist, college professor
Language	English
Genre	Literary fiction, horror, non-fiction
Notable works	Out There (2022) Sky Daddy (2025)
Notable awards	Stegner Fellow

Kate Folk is an American author of short stories, novels and essays.

Her book of short stories, Out There, was published in 2022, was a finalist for the California Book Award in First Fiction. ^[1] and was named a best book of the year by Kirkus Reviews, the Chicago Review of Books, and Jezebel. It has been translated into Korean and Spanish.

In 2020, it was announced that Folk was developing a television show with Sharon Horgan for Hulu ^[2] A feature screenplay written by Folk was selected for the 2024 Black List. ^[3]

Her debut novel, Sky Daddy, was published in 2025.

Life

Kate Folk was born in Iowa City, IA. From 2019 to 2021, she was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. ^[4]

Folk has received fellowships and residencies from MacDowell (2017), ^[5] Willapa Bay AiR (2023), ^[6] the Vermont Studio Center (2014 and 2016), and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2013). From 2016 to 2019, she was an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts ^[7]

Folk has published short stories in The New Yorker , McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Zyzzyva , Granta , The Baffler , Conjunctions , and One Story , among others.

She has also published essays and criticism in the New York Times Magazine, ^[8] the New York Times Book Review, ^[9] and Literary Hub ^[10]

Bibliography

Fiction

• Sky Daddy (2025) Random House. ISBN   978-0593231494 ^{[11] [12] [13]}
• Out There (2022) ISBN   978-0593231463 ^[14]

Short Stories

• "Out There ^[15] "
• "The Bone Ward ^[16] " ^[17]
• "Shelter ^[18] "
• "Heart Seeks Brain ^[19] "
• "A Scale Model of Gull Point ^[20] "
• "Pups ^[21] "
• "The Void Wife" ^[22]
• "Wildlife Watching ^[23] "

References

1. "Finalists for the 92nd Annual California Book Awards Competition Announced". www.commonwealthclub.org.
2. White, Peter (November 19, 2020). "Hulu Developing Half-Hour Dramedy 'Out There' From Sharon Horgan, Kate Folk, Jason Winer & 20th Television, Based On New Yorker Story".
3. D'Alessandro, Anthony (December 10, 2024). "The Black List 2024: 'One Night Only' Tops Chart And Its Writer Makes A Bit Of History".
4. "Kate Folk | Creative Writing Program". creativewriting.stanford.edu.
5. "Kate Folk - Artist". MacDowell.
6. "Residents Roster". Willapa Bay AiR.
7. "Kate Folk - Headlands Center for the Arts". Headlands Center for the Arts -. June 13, 2016.
8. Folk, Kate (July 25, 2018). "Letter of Recommendation: Dead Malls". The New York Times– via NYTimes.com.
9. Folk, Kate (2023-07-12). "In These Four Story Collections, Feminist Horror Abounds". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2025-04-29.
10. Folk, Kate (2022-03-29). "On Notes to a Future Self: How Journaling Helps Me Write". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2025-04-29.
11. Medland, Amber (2025-03-26). "The story of the woman who had a sexual fetish for aeroplanes". The Telegraph. ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 2025-03-26.
12. "SF Author Kate Folk's 'Sky Daddy' Explores Objectophilia, Takes Place Largely At SFO". SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports. 2025-03-02. Retrieved 2025-03-26.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
13. Folk, Kate (2025-02-11). "The Sublime Beauty That Airplanes Leave Behind". The New York Times. Retrieved 2025-03-26.
14. Folk, Kate (2020-03-16). ""Out There"". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved 2025-03-26.
15. Folk, Kate (16 March 2020). ""Out There"". The New Yorker.
16. "McSweeney's Issue 55".
17. "McSweeney's Issue 55". The McSweeney's Store.
18. "Shelter". 28 February 2022.
19. "Conjunctions".
20. "A Scale Model of Gull Point". 31 January 2017.
21. "Pups – One Story".
22. "The Void Wife".
23. "Wildlife Watching | Kate Folk". 23 February 2024.