FOR YOU, MADAM LENIN
—a novel—

• IPPY Silver Medal

• ForeWord Book of the Year finalist


In For You, Madam Lenin, Kat Meads has done something truly remarkable: She has reduced over fifty years of the world's most violent political and social history into 281 pages of character-driven prose.
American Book Review

Kat Meads' exquisite prose brings to life one of the most determined and enigmatic women in history in a story which exemplifies with irony, pathos and dark humor
that there is no tragedy like a Russian tragedy.
—Historical Novel Society

Upcoming Events

July 8
Book Smart, Tulsa, OK
with Allison Amend & Lou Berney

July 13, 9:30 a.m.
"In the Archives"
Oklahoma History Center
Oklahoma City, OK

July 16
Edmond, OK, Public Library
with Red Earth MFA faculty

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 Silicon Valley Arts Council fellowships.

Her short stories have won awards from
Chelsea and Inkwell Magazine,
her essays from
New Letters, Lyra and Drunken Boat.
Her mystery novel, Senestre on Vacation (written as Z.K. Burrus),
was a 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year finalist.
Her short plays have been produced in Los Angeles, New York and the Midwest
.
She has been an artist-in-residence at the Fine Arts Work
Center in Provincetown,
Yaddo, Millay Colony for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center,
Dorland,
and the Montalvo Center for the Arts.

She teaches in Oklahoma City University's low-residency Red Earth MFA program.
 Red Earth MFA Program


Books
Senestre on Vacationwhen the dust finally settles •  Little Pockets of Alarm
The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan •Sleep • Not Waving • The Queendom • Born Southern and Restless
Filming the Everyday

Chapbooks
Quizzing the Dead • Stress in America • Night Bones • Wayward Women

Anthology
Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience
Co-edited with Cris Mazza, Gina Frangello & Stacy Bierlein

Quick Reads Online

Lidia Yuknavitch interviews Kat at The Rumpus

Kat's The Nervous Breakdown Self-Interview

And on the Salty Sea Twirls a Dog

On Reading and Rereading The Mind of The South in No Place Southern
 
CONTACT
contact@katmeads.com