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Kate Folk is the author of the novel SKY DADDY (2025) and the story collection OUT THERE (2022). Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, and The Baffler, among others. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she’s also received support for her writing from MacDowell, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and Willapa Bay AiR. Originally from Iowa, she lives in San Francisco.

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	Sky Daddy 3.81 avg rating — 12,132 ratings — published 2025 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out There 4.13 avg rating — 6,999 ratings — published 2022 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Volume 0: Issue 4 by Annie Hamilton, Victoria Dalpe (Goodreads Author), Eliza Clark 3.17 avg rating — 124 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bartleby Snopes Issue 10 by Nathaniel Tower (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rick Taliaferro (Editor), Justin Daugherty (Editor) 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Retro Five: Selections from Joyland Magazine by Annabel Graham, Kristen Arnett (Goodreads Author), Michelle Lyn King 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Gravity’s Rainbow

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War and Peace

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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

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Kate Folk answered Anastasiya Olkanetskaya's question: Are you working on another book? I really enjoyed Sky Daddy and Out There! Yes! I'm writing another novel, and I'm also working on some new short stories. It will likely be a bit before anything is ready for primetime, but then again hopefully not too long. Thanks for reading!
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“Total freedom is overrated, especially when you get to a certain age. If you aren't tied down to anything. you're a loser, you're fucked. You drift out to sea.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

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“We've stayed put through worse storms,' Elise's mom said.

'It's not a tornado, Mom. It's a curtain of absence that negates everything it touches.'

'Might as well be negated in our own house, then.”
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“My female friends have all coupled with men who are feeding off their organs and whose organs they are feeding off of, a symbiotic process that will continue until they break up or one of them dies. If and when they return to me, single again, they'll be diminished in body and spirit - feet swollen from renal failure, or eyes jaundiced, or breath coming short, a piece of their lung or liver or kidney on a shelf in some man's house.”
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“Such uncertainty was the nature of existence. We brought things into our lives, and time passed. Things exited our lives. That was about all that ever happened.”
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“In the past I had approached dating with a typical fervor of an addict.”
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“The need for employment, for money and status, felt like an abstraction, a pointless flailing of his ego.”
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“Instead, the Last Woman on Earth had been handed a talk show, not because she deserved it, but simply because she was a woman. The Last Man on Earth dies with resentment in his heart.”
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