Kate Folk

Kate Folk is an author, screenwriter, and educator based in San Francisco. Her debut novel, Sky Daddy, is forthcoming from Random House in 2025. Her story collection, Out There (2022), was a finalist for the California Book Award in First Fiction. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Zyzzyva, and The Baffler, among other venues. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she’s also received fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and Willapa Bay AiR.

• University of San Francisco, MFA in Creative Writing, 2011
• New York University, BA in Individualized Study, 2007

• Stegner Fellowship in Fiction, 2019

• MacDowell Fellow, 2017

• Headlands Center for the Arts Affiliate Artist, 2016