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Kate Folk is the author of Sky Daddy (Random House 2025), which has been longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel prize and named a best book of the year by Time, Oprah Daily, Publishers Weekly, Debutiful, Electric Lit, Book Riot, and Vulture. Her story collection, Out There (Random House 2022), was a finalist for the California Book Award in First Fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, n+1, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, One Story, Granta, and The Baffler, among other venues. A former Stegner Fellow, she has also received fellowships from MacDowell, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and Willapa Bay AiR. She lives in San Francisco.

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	Sky Daddy 3.80 avg rating — 17,160 ratings — published 2025 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out There 4.13 avg rating — 7,313 ratings — published 2022 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Volume 0: Issue 4 by Annie Hamilton, Victoria Dalpe (Goodreads Author), Eliza Clark 3.19 avg rating — 132 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bartleby Snopes Issue 10 by Nathaniel Tower (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rick Taliaferro (Editor), Justin Daugherty (Editor) 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Retro Five: Selections from Joyland Magazine by Annabel Graham, Kristen Arnett (Goodreads Author), Michelle Lyn King 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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War and Peace

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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

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Kate Folk answered Anastasiya Olkanetskaya's question: Are you working on another book? I really enjoyed Sky Daddy and Out There! 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 then again hopefully not too long. Thanks for reading!
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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.”
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“As I belonged nowhere on the conventional spectrum of sexual orientation, I allowed people to assume I was heterosexual, and I suppose I was, as all planes are male in spirit, just as all boats are female, and helicopters possess the souls of mischievous children.”
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“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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“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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