Published in 2022
256 pages
Kate Folk is the author of Out There, a finalist for the California Book Award in First Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Granta, One Story, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and Zyzzyva, among others. A recent Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she’s also received support from the Headlands Center for the Arts, MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives in San Francisco and is writing a novel, as well as developing a television show based on the title story from her collection.
What is this book about?
Kate Folk’s debut short story collection Out There is a genre-bending look at the human response to the voids in life; internal and external, literal and metaphorical.
Out There deftly combines elements of science fiction, horror, and psychological realism to create implicitly political and feminist stories. A 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.
