Cate McGowan: About the Author

Cate McGowan is a fiction writer, essayist, and poet. Her work appears in Norton’s Flash Fiction International, Glimmer Train, Crab Orchard Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Crab Fat Magazine, Barrelhouse, Shenandoah, Into the Void, Louisville Review, Atticus Review, Vestal Review, Unbroken, Ellipsis Zine, and elsewhere. A Georgia native, McGowan is a fiction editor at Pithead Chapel and is pursuing her Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies. She won the Moon City Short Fiction Award for her debut short story collection, True Places Never Are. Her novel, These Lowly Objects, will appear from Gold Wake Press in 2020.