Kate Hart's debut novel, AFTER THE FALL, was published in 2017 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Her short stories and essays have been included in NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT (PRH 2023), DAVY JUNE'S LEGENDARY FRY BREAD DRIVE-IN (Heartdrum 2025), OUT NOW (Inkyard 2020), BODY TALK (Algonquin 2020), TOIL AND TROUBLE (Harlequin Teen 2018),and HOPE NATION (Philomel 2018). Born in Oklahoma and raised in Arkansas, Kate is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation with Choctaw heritage and a member of the Tulsa chapter of Matriarch. She lives with her family on a mountainside outside of Fayetteville, where she co-owns Natural State Treehouses and sells woodworking and fiber arts at