Kate Leary is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and the Gina Berriault Work-in-Progress Award. Her fiction has appeared in Fourteen Hills, Day One, The Baltimore Review, Harpur Palate, and Night Train, and she was a regular contributor of essays to the Ploughshares blog. She received an MFA from the University of Arizona, where she was a fiction editor of Sonora Review. She works for Hillside Writing and lives in Arlington, Massachusetts with her family.