Out There deftly combines elements of science fiction, horror, and psychological realism to create implicitly political and feminist stories. A new short story collection, Witness , is forthcoming in 2023 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kate Folk’s debut short story collection Out There is a genre-bending look at the human response to the voids in life internal and external, literal and metaphorical. Raised in Brooklyn and the Bronx, he teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Bingham Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and winner of a PEN Oakland Award and the Ernest J. Kate Folk’s debut short story collection Out There is a genre-bending look at the human response to the voids in life internal and external, literal and metaphorical. Jamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories , a finalist for the National Book Award, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize, the PEN/Robert W. And many more that form Kate Folks debut collection Out There deftly combines elements of science fiction, horror, and psychological realism to create. Originally from Iowa City, she currently lives in San Francisco. She’s the recipient of a Stegner fellowship in fiction from Stanford University, and has written for publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and Zyzzyva. Kate Folk is the author of Out There: Stories. She will be joined in conversation by Jamel Brinkley.Ĭhicago Review of Books says of Out There, “Stegner Fellow Kate Folk first caught the CHIRB’s notice, and everyone else’s, when the titular story appeared in The New Yorker a couple years back, which set up some big expectations for her debut collection. Luckily Folk’s ample imagination ably exceeds them with these eerily absurdist tales that offer a perfect encapsulation of our modern madnesses, like an Alice’s looking glass for our social media–obsessed age.”

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Kate Folk to celebrate the release of her new book Out There: Stories.

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