Kat Meads

Kat Meads is the author of Miss Jane: The Lost Years (2018) and other books of prose and poetry, including 2:12 a.m. - Essays, For You, Madam Lenin, The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan, Born Southern and Restless, Little Pockets of Alarm and Sleep. Along with Cris Mazza, Gina Frangello and Stacy Bierlein, she edited Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience.

Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Crazyhorse, The Southern Review, American Letters & Commentary, World Literature Today, Full-Stop and Chicago Quarterly Review. She has received an NEA and writing residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her story "The End of Something (Maybe Love)" received Chelsea magazine's fiction prize, and her essays have received the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Essay Award from New Letters and Notable citations in the Best American Essays series. Her short plays have been produced in New York and Los Angeles.

Born in North Carolina, she lives in California.

www.katmeads.com