Kate Tooley is a queer writer originally from the Atlanta area, currently living in Brooklyn. She writes about the sticky corners of gender and sexuality; complicated families; and magical animals. Kate Tooley is a queer, Brooklyn-based writer originally from Georgia. They hold an MFA from the New School, are an alum of the Kenyon Writer’s Workshop, and a Lambda Literary fellow. Their writing can be found or is forthcoming in journals including The Kenyon Review, Passages North, and Wigleaf, and has won the Tennessee Williams Very Short Fiction Contest, and the Larry Brown Short Story Award. Currently they’re at work on a queer, gothic novel about small-town southern cults, murder, and bodily possession.