Winner of the 2019 Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, selected by Min Jin Lee

Kate Wisel is a native of Boston. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in publications that include Gulf Coast, New Ohio Review, Tin House online, Redivider as winner of the Beacon Street Prize, and on the Boston subway as winner of the "Poetry on the T" contest. She currently lives in Madison, where she is a fiction fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.