Kate Folk Books In Order

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Kate Folk is a published author who is based in the city of San Francisco.

Her writing has appeared in many different publications that include One Story, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and Zyzzyva.

Recently she has served as a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. She has also received support from such places as the Vermont Studio Center, MacDowell, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Her story collection Out There was her first to be published and was followed by the full length fictional novel, Sky Daddy.

Out There is a 2022 collection of short stories from Kate Folk and her debut short story collection. Readers will delight in the fact that the author focuses on the weird and strange forces that can lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience.

This collection is pitched to the madness of the current moment. These include a story where a medical ward for a strange bone melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. Meanwhile, a curtain of void is taking the globe out at a steady pace, which forces the last remaining inhabitants on Earth to quickly decide what person they would want to spend eternity with.

There is also the case of a man fleeing personal scandal who has entered into a codependent relationship with a physical house that requires a high level of care. In the title story, which originally came out in the New Yorker, a woman in San Francisco uses modern dating apps to try and find a partner even though there is a real threat posed by blots, handsome artificial men who have been dispatched by Russian hackers so that they can steal data. In a different story, a woman and a blot are able to make a genuine connection, even though it may be doomed.

Incredible and full of imagination, Out There shows the reader a strange landscape that perhaps is able to hold a mirror to our own subconscious fears and desires. Each story has its own heart and together they are able to bring an exciting new arrival to bear in the tradition of speculative literary fiction that will have you turning page after page to devour yet another of Kate Folk’s unique and creative stories.

Sky Daddy is a 2025 novel from Kate Folk. Unexpectedly heartwarming and occasionally subversive, this is a classic love story with a new twist that explores fate, desire, and even the longing to be accepted for who we are.

Linda is trying to do her best to lead the type of life that would look totally normal to the casual person who was on the outside looking in. On the weekdays, she gets twenty dollars an hour for moderating comments for a video sharing platform.

After that, she takes the bus home to the garage without windows that she rents, located on the very outskirts of San Francisco. On the last Friday of every month, she indulges in her real passion, which is taking BART to SFO to take a round trip flight to a regional hub.

Where she is going and the true destination doesn’t matter simply because every trip means that she’s going to be having a new date with a handsome stranger. The type of stranger who has sleek fuselages, intelligent windscreens, and engines that are powerful enough to make Linda feel a certain type of way that no person could ever make her feel.

Linda understands that she probably should not tell anyone that she has a sexual obsession with planes. She also probably should not reveal that she believes that her own personal fate is to marry one of her plane suitors by passing away in a plane crash. This would unite her with her ‘soulmate plane’ for all of the rest of time.

When the chance comes up to speed her dream up of having an eternal partnership, and the balanced elements that make up her life start to spin out of control, she’s going to have to pick between keeping up the trappings of normalcy or throwing herself at the love that she has been dreaming of for so long. Can Linda get over this, or will she stay permanently on the weird side of town by continuing her obsession with planes? Read this book to find out!