Cate McGowan

Cate McGowan is the author of the short story collection, True Places Never Are (2015), which won the 2014 Moon City Press Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for The Lascaux Book Prize. Her debut novel, These Lowly Objects, is forthcoming from Gold Wake Press (2021), and her award-winning fiction has appeared in Norton’s anthology, Flash Fiction International. Her poems, stories, and essays are featured in outlets such as Glimmer Train, Crab Orchard Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Phoebe, Shenandoah, Okay, Donkey, Atticus Review, and numerous other literary magazines. A Georgia native, creative writing and composition professor, and current PhD candidate in philosophy and art theory, McGowan serves as a prose poetry/fiction editor at Pithead Chapel.