Cate McGowanCate McGowan is an artist, critic, historian, and the author of three books. Her collection of memoir essays, Writing is Revision, will be published by De Gruyter Brill in 2024, and her novel, These Lowly Objects, appeared with Gold Wake Press in 202. McGowan's short story collection, True Places Never Are, won the Moon City Press Short Fiction Award in 2014 and was a finalist for the Lascaux Prize. Cate's poetry, essays, and stories have appeared in numerous literary outlets, including Norton's Flash Fiction International, Glimmer Train, The North American Review, Stonecoast Review, Chestnut Review, Shenandoah, Citron Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Tahoma Literary Review. Professor McGowan (known as McG to her students) holds an M.F.A. and Ph.D. and is currently pursuing another advanced degree at Johns Hopkins University. She regards teaching as her lifeblood and lives in Florida with her husband and animal family, but remains deeply connected to her progressive Southern roots in Atlanta, Georgia. Read More Read Less