Cate McGowan

books
+ True Places Never Are: Stories, Moon City Press (winner of the Moon City Short Fiction Award)
+ These Lowly Objects: A Novel, Gold Wake Press, forthcoming

selected fiction and essays

+ “Unrhymed Sonnet Constructed with American Sentences,” Crack the Spine
+ “Making It,” Okay Donkey
+ “Poppies,” Riggwelter
+ “Last Days of Men,” Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art
+ “Light, Birds, Lake,” Spotlight Series, Split Rock Review
+ “Never Salute a Bare Head,” Derelict Lit
+ “Heretic,” Tahoma Literary Review
+ “Reservoir,” Atticus Review
+ “Certain Smile,” Barren Magazine
+ “Cherry Bomb,” TSS Publishing
+ “Four Out of Five Dentists Agree,”Ellipsis Zine, Four: The Whisper Place
+ “Flag Guy,” Iron Horse Literary Review, Newsflash
+ “Routine Cleaning,” Heavy Feather Review
+ “Whispers Fill What Space Is Left,” CDC Poetry Project
+ “His Favorites,” Bull & Cross
+ “Let Go,” Moon City Review
+ “Come to Me,”TANK Magazine
+ “How Can You Title Longing?”The Louisville Review
+ “It’s Not Your Hat,” Vestal Review
+ “Arm, Clean Off,” Glimmer Train
+ “While Doing My Hand-Washables on Wednesday,” Snake Nation Review
+ “Everything’s Lighter in Water,” The Louisville Review

selected poetry

+ “Disguise,” forthcoming in Black Bough Poetry’s Freedom/Rapture
+ “Sing Away, My Sister,” JMWW Journal
+ “Love Is a Graveyard for the Lonely,” Occulum
+ “Lesson Plan,” Humans in the Wild: Reactions to a Gun-Loving Country
+ “Consequences in Water,” Birdcoat Quarterly
+ “If only I could choose my own country,” Stonecoast Review
+ “Every Body Has Ghosts,” Luna Luna Magazine
+ “The World Will Blow,” Unbroken Journal
+ “’RSVP’ Is the Collective Noun for Snowy Egrets,” Split Rock Review
+ “Mother Courage,” Kissing Dynamite
+ “In the Middle of Nowhere,” Crab Fat Magazine
+ “Dark Knots,” Rogue Agent Journal
+ “The loon wails this morning,” Half Mystic Journal
+ “The Lives I Save Are Never My Own,” Coal Hill Review
+ “At the Edge of a Stand of Trees by Moonligh t,” Occulum
+ “Chyrons Run Through My Head,” 5th Wall
+ “Depending on the Horizon,” Unbroken Journal
+ “Drought,” Barren Magazine
+ “Ghost Light,” Burrow Press’s Fantastic Floridas
+ “Lopsided,” petrichor: A Journal of Text & Image
+ “More’s the Pity,” “Cocoon,” and “Deep Wax,” Anti-Heroin Chic
+ “Reckoning,” Into the Void
+ “A Slip Jig and Reel in Cut-Time,” Shenandoah
+ “Inaugural Poem, January 20, 2001,” Crab Orchard Review

in anthology

+ “Lesson Plan,” Humans in the Wild: Reactions to a Gun-Loving Country, Swallow Publishing
+ “I’ll Go Now,” Descansos: Words from the Wayside, Darkhouse Books
+ “Arm, Clean Off,” Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World, Norton

selected honors and awards

+ Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2020
+ Moon City Press Short Fiction Book Award
+ The Lascaux Book Prize, Finalist
+ Very Short Fiction Prize, Glimmer Train Literary Magazine (second place)
+ Porter Fleming Award in Fiction
+ Porter Fleming Award in Poetry
+ Kentuckiana Award in Poetry
+ The Santa Fe Writer’s Project Book Award (second place)
+ Rate My Professors: Top 20 American College Professors