Kate Finegan

March 2022

Kate Finegan is a fiction writer whose work is supported by Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council. She is novel/novella editor for Split/Lip Press. She was winner of PRISM International's 2020 Jacob Zilber Prize for short fiction and was awarded The Fiddlehead’s 2017 fiction prize for a story. She grew up mostly in Tennessee and recently moved from Toronto to Saskatchewan with her spouse and two cats. While at the Wallace Stegner House, Kate will be working on fiction that explores the permeability of the body within its environments. Inspired by place and the complexities of home, she is looking forward to experiencing Eastend in the winter.