Cate McGowan is the author of a book of short stories, True Places Never Are, which won the Moon City Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for The Lascaux Book Prize. And her novel, These Lowly Objects, is forthcoming from Gold Wake Books. McGowan’s stories, poems, and essays have appeared in numerous outlets, including Glimmer Train, Crab Orchard Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Phoebe, Shenandoah, and the Norton anthology, Flash Fiction International. McGowan is a Ph.D. student and currently serves as the Prose Poetry Editor at Pithead Chapel.