Welcome! I’m Kate–a writer of fantasy, magical realism, science fiction, and horror. My poetry and fiction has appeared in Podcastle, Fireside Fiction, Arsenika, and Illumen, among other places. My non-fiction essays have appeared at Superstition Review and The Deadlands. I also reviewed sci-fi & fantasy at FantasyLiterature.com where I once curated a column, “The Expanded Universe.”

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I teach English Literature as an online instructor at the University of Mississippi; and teach first-year writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. My Ph.D. from Florida State University is in early British literature, with a special emphasis on drama and the history of the book. My other research interests include the staging of women’s bodies; fairy tales and folklore; and science-fiction, fantasy, magical realism, and horror.