Kate Reed Petty’s debut novel, “True Story,” was a New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” and was a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award and a Shirley Jackson Award. Kate’s fiction and essays have been published by ZZYZZYVA, Electric Literature, American Short Fiction, Blackbird, Nat. Brut, the Los Angeles Review of Books blog, and Ambit. Her work has been supported by a Rubys Grant from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and creative residencies at Bloedel Reserve and The Mount.

In addition to fiction, Kate’s short films have appeared on Narrative magazine and at the 2019 Maryland Film Festival. And her middle-grade graphic novel, The Leak, illustrated by Andrea Bell, was published by First Second Books in March 2021.

Kate lives in Baltimore.