Short Stories | Chapbooks
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) |
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 |