Cate McGowan is the author of the story collection, True Places Never Are (Moon City Press, 2015), which won the Moon City Press Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for Lascaux Prize. McGowan’s poems, stories, and essays appear in literary outlets such as Glimmer Train, W. W. Norton’s Flash Fiction International, Crab Orchard Review, Shenandoah, Unbroken, Louisville Review, and Vestal Review.