About Guest Contributor Kate Leary
Kate was named an Artist Fellow by the Massachusetts Cultural Council for her novella, Holy Family. She received a Sustainable Arts Foundation award for her novel-in-progress. Her short stories have appeared in The Baltimore Review, Word Riot, Harpur Palate, and Night Train, and she blogs regularly for Ploughshares. She received her MFA from the University of Arizona and lives near Boston with her husband and two sons. She can be found at kateleary.net.
Lauren Grodstein’s latest novel, Our Short History, takes the form of a memoir written by a dying mother to her son. Things become complicated when her son’s father, who was not aware that he had a son, comes back into…
