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Forthcoming publications

"Beds, A Reverie" — American Letters & Commentary

"Craters in the Sand" — Pilgrimage

"Counterproductive Bedtime Stories (The Short List) — The Chautauqua Literary Journal


2008 Readings

March 12 - 10:30 a.m.
Porter Memorial Library, Soquel, Calif.



Bio

An award-winning writer of fiction, drama, nonfiction and poetry, Kat Meads
is a native of eastern North Carolina. She holds an MFA from the University of
North Carolina, Greensboro, and a BA from the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill.

She has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in poetry,
a California Artist Fellowship in fiction and two Arts Council Silicon Valley fellowships.
Her short stories have won awards from Chelsea and Inkwell Magazine,
her essays from New Letters, Lyra and Drunken Boat.
Her short plays have been produced in Los Angeles, New York and the Midwest.
In 1995, she received the Judith Siegel Pearson Award in Drama from Wayne
State University. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Fine Arts Work
Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, Millay Colony for the Arts, Blue Mountain Colony,
Dorland, and the Montalvo Center for the Arts.



Books

The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan Benedict Roberts Duncan
(Chiasmus Press, 2006)
Sleep (Livingston Press/University of West Alabama, 2004)
Not Waving (Livingston Press/University of West Alabama, 2001)
The Queendom (Linear Arts Press, 1998)
Born Southern and Restless (Duquesne University Press, 1996)
Filming the Everyday (Lighting Tree Books, 1989)

Chapbooks

Quizzing the Dead (Pudding House Publications, 2002)
Stress in America (March Street Press, 2001)
Night Bones (Linear Arts Press, 2000)
Wayward Women (Illinois Writers Inc., 1995)


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The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan
"A breathtaking and edgy romp." —John Dufresne



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Sleep
“Passionate, funny, and at times gut-wrenching" —Alan DeNiro




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Not Waving
"A joy to read, first-class fiction" —Wind Magazine




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Stress in America
Supported in part by a California Artist Fellowship
 

Quick Reads Online

Why Insomniacs Will Buy Anything from Anybody, Etc.” - essay
www.identitytheory.com/nonfiction/meads_insomniacs.php

“CiCi Gets Drunker on Airplanes” - short story
www.mississippireview.com/2006/Vol12No1-Jan06/1201-010906-meads.html

“Dogs” - poem
www.rattle.com/rattle18/18index.html



CONTACT
contact@katmeads.com