Kate Busatto is originally from Pittsburgh. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Divinity from Yale University. Her work has been featured in The Threepenny Review, Five Dials, The Moth, and Tampa Review, among others. Kate has received support to attend the 2025 Sewanee Writers’ Conference as a Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction. She is an incoming 2025-26 John Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University. She is also the recipient of the 2025 Kenyon Review Developmental Editing Fellowship in Fiction for her novel in progress. Kate is currently working on her first novel. Visit her at katebusatto.com.