Kate Tooley is a queer writer originally from the Atlanta area, currently living in Brooklyn. They write about the sticky corners of gender and sexuality; complicated families; and the myriad ways in which we become haunted. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and are an assistant editor at Uncharted Magazine.
Fiction
&
Creative Nonfiction
Gigantic Sequins - “"You Can't Get to Heaven on the Road to Hell, but 1-95 Will Eventually Get You to Florida" and "How to Close a Box" Fall 2024 (order here)
Passages North - “Elizabeth Bishop Screams on the Beach” and “At the Gallery” January 2024 (Copies available for purchase here.)
Wigleaf - “Uncertain Bodies” January, 2023 (Read their Postcard here.”
Pithead Chapel - “Bait Dog” January, 2023 (Winner of the Larry Brown Short Story Award, guest judge: Kristen Arnett)
Passages North - “Three Times the Ghost of Cousin Sadie Slipped the Veil to Bother Me While I was Reading” November, 2022 (Wigleaf Top 50)
Pigeon Pages - “Controlled Burn” October, 2022 (Best of the Nest 2022 selection)
River Styx - “A Note to All My Future Hinge Dates” Forthcoming June, 2022 (Winner of the 2021 Microfiction Competition)
Gargoyle Magazine #74 - “The End of the World is the Original Femme Fatale” November 2021 (order here)
Retreat West - “Lilith Comes to Me After I Pray for Wholeness” September, 2021 (Runner up, Uncanny Flash Competition)
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Santa Fe Writers Project - “Afterimage” May, 2021
Barren Magazine - “The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis” April, 2021
Pidgeonholes - “A Story About Not Going Through the Wardrobe” July, 2020 (Best Microfiction Nom/Wigleaf Top 50 longlist)
Witness Magazine - “Cranky Pants",” “Under the Door,” “The Buzzer” q+1 special issue, June, 2020
X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine - “Memory Palace as Maze” June, 2020
The Inquisitive Eater - “Coq” April, 2020
Longleaf Review - “Natural (Watching Blue Planet II in Bed with My Wife)” March, 2020 (Best American Essays Nominee)
Apocrypha and Abstractions - “Cliff Diving” 2016
Virginia Literary Review (UVa) “Magpie” 2013
3.7 Magazine (UVa) - “Corners” 2012
Glass, Garden (UVa) - “Like Nor’Easters” 2012
FIFE Zine (UVa) - “The Angel of St. Michel de Cuxa” 2012
Virginia Literary Review - “Available in Season” 2011
Sanctuary - “Distopia” & “Enter Right, Exit Left” 2010
Other Writing
Building Rhetorics of Joy: An Interview with Bethany Jacobs, 2024
“I Need to Get This Down”: Writing in Paris with Wilbert Turner III, 2023
“Interview With 2019 NBCC Biography Finalist Lucasta Miller” 2020
“Unfamiliar, Like Memory (Alexander Chee, Chloe Caldwell, and my #verygay reading list)” 2019
“How to Make the Most of the Brooklyn Book Festival (and Other “Bookish Events”)” 2019
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