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Kate McQuade
Kate McQuade is the author of the acclaimed story collection Tell Me Who We Were (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2019) and the novel Two Harbors (Harcourt, 2005). Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Harvard Review, Joyland, Memorious, Shenandoah, and Verse Daily, and her nonfiction has appeared in LitHub, The Lily for Washington Post, and TIME Magazine, among others. Her work has been supported by the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Mass Cultural Council, Best American Short Stories (2020 Distinguished Story), and fellowships and scholarships from MacDowell, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Ucross Foundation, and Yaddo. Born and raised in Minnesota, she holds degrees from Princeton University and the Bread Loaf School of English and teaches at Phillips Academy, Andover, where she lives on campus with her husband and three children.
