And many more that form Kate Folk's debut collection Out There deftly combines elements of science fiction, horror, and psychological realism to create implicitly political and feminist stories.Ī darkly comic exploration of our lives in the digital age, the collection depicts a landscape that is eminently of-the-moment, and Folk magnifies the ephemera of living with a healthy slice of absurdity. A curtain of void obliterates the world at a steady pace, leaving one woman to decide whom she wants to spend eternity with, in The Void Wife. A house possesses gigantic human organs that consume the overworked graduate students renting its rooms, in The House's Beating Heart. She has written for publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, One Story, Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and Zyzzyva.Recently, she was a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. A ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the scene of a perilous love triangle, in The Bone Ward. Kate Folk is the author of Out There, a story collection (Random House 22), and a forthcoming novel, also from Random House. A sculptor, trapped in a skyscraper restaurant when a violent coup erupts below, creates a perfect model of the town as it is destroyed, in A Scale Model of Gull Point. Companion story Big Sur focuses on the reality of the blots' personal experiences. As of last year, her team has officially closed on a TV series deal with Hulu, with Kate.

A fleet of fake men called 'blots' is unleashed onto the dating apps of San Francisco, intent upon conning vulnerable women out of their data, in the exquisite title story Out There. Her first, unpublished, novel HOUNDSTOOTH is under TV option with AMC.

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