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Kate Folk is the author of the novel SKY DADDY (2025) and the story collection OUT THERE (2022). Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, and The Baffler, among others. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she’s also received support for her writing from MacDowell, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and Willapa Bay AiR. Originally from Iowa, she lives in San Francisco.

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Kate Folk Yes! I'm writing another novel, and I'm also working on some new short stories. It will likely be a bit before anything is ready for primetime, but th…moreYes! I'm writing another novel, and I'm also working on some new short stories. It will likely be a bit before anything is ready for primetime, but then again hopefully not too long. Thanks for reading! (less)
Kate Folk Hi Donna! Thanks for this question. There isn't a firm connection honestly. I wanted the character to be from somewhere midwestern and suburban, and I…moreHi Donna! Thanks for this question. There isn't a firm connection honestly. I wanted the character to be from somewhere midwestern and suburban, and I must have landed on Wheaton after doing some internet research. I grew up in Iowa, but often find myself rooting characters in Illinois, maybe because it's similar but not exactly like where I grew up. There was also something about the name "Wheaton" that felt evocative to me, a kind of American everytown, symbolic of the stasis the narrator longed to eject herself from (though I'm sure it's a very nice place in reality)(less)
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“Dancing and swimming - those are two things I'll never pass up. I figure when I'm old, I'll look back on my life and be glad that I enjoyed my body while I could.”
Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“Total freedom is overrated, especially when you get to a certain age. If you aren't tied down to anything. you're a loser, you're fucked. You drift out to sea.”
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“My female friends have all coupled with men who are feeding off their organs and whose organs they are feeding off of, a symbiotic process that will continue until they break up or one of them dies. If and when they return to me, single again, they'll be diminished in body and spirit - feet swollen from renal failure, or eyes jaundiced, or breath coming short, a piece of their lung or liver or kidney on a shelf in some man's house.”
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“Such uncertainty was the nature of existence. We brought things into our lives, and time passed. Things exited our lives. That was about all that ever happened.”
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“In the past I had approached dating with a typical fervor of an addict.”
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“The need for employment, for money and status, felt like an abstraction, a pointless flailing of his ego.”
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“Instead, the Last Woman on Earth had been handed a talk show, not because she deserved it, but simply because she was a woman. The Last Man on Earth dies with resentment in his heart.”
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“My female friends have all coupled with men who are feeding off their organs and whose organs they are feeding off of, a symbiotic process that will continue until they break up or one of them dies. If and when they return to me, single again, they'll be diminished in body and spirit - feet swollen from renal failure, or eyes jaundiced, or breath coming short, a piece of their lung or liver or kidney on a shelf in some man's house.”
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