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"A lovely tale about the strength it takes to make change and break rules that shouldn't be rules."
—Read North Carolina Novels UNC-Chapel Hill Library when the dust finally settles Kat Meads's fiction explodes the stale stereotypes of the South in ways which are a true wonder to behold. Simply put, you must read Kat Meads. —Jason Sanford, Founding Editor, storySouth In her latest, Kat Meads employs a staccato, rhythmic prose in the service of a narrative both beautifully imagined and wildly exotic. when the dust finally settles will keep you up nights reading its propulsive story, but will also reward the reader who loves finely crafted sentences and pitch-perfect dialogue. —Corey Mesler, author of Following Richard Brautigan In The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan, Kat Meads created a 1950s-era Scarlett O'Hara in eastern North Carolina. Now she speaks through Faulknerian voices as white and black members of Mawatuck County desegregate the schools in the 1960s. Clarence Carter, speaking from the dead, provides a surprisingly upbeat perspective on the events unfolding in the community he has not quite left. A refreshingly different Southern story. —Dr. Margaret D. Bauer, Rives Chair of Southern Literature, East Carolina University • Upcoming Events September 2011 Workshops & reading North Coast Redwoods Writers' Conference Crescent City, CA - September 16 & 17 November 2011 Reading with Sally Ashton BookSmart - Morgan Hill, CA Saturday, Nov. 5, 1 p.m. December 2011 - January 2012 Winter Session Workshops Oklahoma City University Red Earth Low-Residency MFA Program
December 28 - January 7 Red Earth MFA Program
February 2012 Reading with Lynne Barrett Co-sponsored by Gallery Books/Mendocino Coast Writers Conference Mendocino, CA Thursday, Feb. 23 (Details to come) March 2012 Reading with Lynne Barrett University of North Carolina - Greensboro Greensboro, NC Thursday, March 29 (Details to come) October 2012 Staged reading of new work The New Short Fiction Series Los Angeles, CA Oct. 14 (Details to come) • Bio 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. She teaches in Oklahoma City University's low-residency Red Earth MFA program. • Books Little Pockets of Alarm (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2009) The Invented Life of Kitty 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
Not Waving
 www.mainstreetrag.com Little Pockets of Alarm
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• Quick Reads Online Why Insomniacs Will Buy Anything from Anybody, Etc. Relativism: The Size of the Tsar in Vegas CiCi Gets Drunker on Airplanes How to Feed Chickens - A Fable On Reading and Rereading The Mind of The South in No Place Southern • CONTACT contact@katmeads.com |
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