Short Stories | Chapbooks
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Colorado | The Rialto Books Review
print (March 2023)
No Shoes | Hypertext Magazine
print & online (Spring 2023)
When the Water Comes | Tusculum University Press
chapbook (2022)
When the Water Comes | The Tusculum Review 
Winner, 2021 Fiction Prize | print (2021)
The Paracosm Girl | Reflex Press 
online (2021)
Last Stop with Louis Armstrong | Jerry Jazz Musician 
Winner, 45th Short Fiction Contest | online (2017)
Chicken | Cicada Magazine
print (2012)
Nelly Weems, Come Home | Hair Trigger 28 
Gold Winner: Columbia Scholastic Press Association Crown Awards | print (2007)

Essays

A Word with Molly Yingling | MASKS Literary Magazine
online (Oct. 2022)
A Word with Kate Wisel | MASKS Literary Magazine
print & online (Jul. 2022)
Novel or Stories? Author Kate Wisel on the Powerful Paradox of Linked Collections | Books | PopMatters
online (Apr. 12, 2022)
Kama'aina |  The Showbear Family Circus 
online (Jun. 27, 2021)
What is Real in the Norval Morrisseau Documentary There Are No Fakes | Film | PopMatters
online (Jun. 14, 2021)
The Likability of Unlikability in Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge | Books | PopMatters 
online (May 11, 2021)
Silence Has a Sound: The Unempty Quiet in Sound of Metal | Film | PopMatters
online (Apr. 8, 2021)
The Martian Chronicles: A Tale of Two Apocalypses | Books | PopMatters
online (Mar. 22, 2021)
A Second Look at The Babadook | Bright Lights Film Journal
online (Jan. 11, 2021)
Revenge and (Bloody) Feminism: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman with a Mossberg 590
"The Justice Issue" | Bright Wall/Dark Room 
online (Oct. 2020)
An Analysis of Audreys | The Bookends Review
"Best Bookends Review Essays of 2018" | online (Feb. 21, 2018)​

Speaking | Storytelling

Successful Submission Strategies | Columbia College Chicago Creative Writing Department 
panel (Dec. 2021)
Songs and Stories | Tusculum University
featured speaker (Dec. 2021)
Myriad | Back to Print
11th Annual Jubilee Reading &  Zine Release (Feb. 2, 2021)
Another Evil Bathtub | Back to Print
10th annual Jubilee Reading & Zine Release (Feb. 7, 2020)
Future Tense: Worlds from the Margins | The Aesthetics of Research, Columbia College Chicago Library 
panel (Mar. 2020)
Leona Woods Marshall | Badass Women of Chicago History | Chicago Detours at The HideOut
storytelling (Mar. 22, 2019)
Water Polo | The "Exes!" Show | Duly Noted Chicago at the On Tour Brewing Company
storytelling (Nov. 27, 2018)
The Year of Cavafy | Department of Modern Greek Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University 
presenter/English translations (Feb. 2013)
The Arrest | March Showcase | StoryLab Chicago at  Murphy & Son's Irish Bistro
storytelling (May 2012)

Photo credit: J.R. Hawbaker (2023)

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 Awards | Residencies | Fellowships

Albert P. Weisman Award | Albert P. Weisman Foundation | Columbia College Chicago | 2022 & 2023
FAW Foundation Award | Friends of American Writers  Foundation| 2021-2022
Franz Kafka Fellowship | Prague Summer Program for Writers| Prague School of Communication | 2021
The Tusculum Review 2021 Fiction Prize, winner | The Tusculum Review| 2021
Artist-in-Residence | Aesthetics of Research | Columbia College Chicago Library | 2020-2021
Best Essays of 2018 | The Bookends Review | 2018
45th Short Fiction Contest, winner | Jerry Jazz Musician | 2017
Fulbright Fellowship | Adam Mickiewicz University | 2012-2013