The Boise State Creative Writing MFA Reading Series presents novelist and short story writer Kate Folk, whose "stories are the best kind of bizarre, as acerbic as they are hilarious, disgusting, surreal and horrifying, warranting comparisons to the work of Ben Marcus, Diane Cook and Alexandra Kleeman (The National Book Review). Folk will give a reading of her work, followed by a Q and A, at 7:00 PM on Friday, April 18, 2025 in The Hemingway Center. Free and open to the public, the MFA Reading Series brings renowned writers to campus each year.

“A superb debut short story collection explores the uncanny and grotesque [...] A bold, exhilarating display of talent.”

-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

The author of the novel "Sky Daddy," Kate Folk also published the short story collection "Out There," a finalist for the California Book Award in First Fiction. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews called "Out There" “a superb debut short story collection explores the uncanny and grotesque [...] A bold, exhilarating display of talent.” Folk's work appears in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, and The Baffler, among other venues. A recent Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she also received support for her writing from MacDowell, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and Willapa Bay AiR. Originally from Iowa, she lives in San Francisco.