Kate Tooley is a queer writer originally from the Atlanta area, currently living in Brooklyn. They write about the sticky corners of gender and sexuality; complicated families; and magical animals. They hold an MFA from the New School, are an alum of the Kenyon Writer’s Workshop, a Lambda Literary fellow, and the recipient of a 2027 Vermont Studio Center fellowship. Their writing can be found 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.