Kate Keleher’s short fiction won the Crazyshorts! Fiction Contest and was selected by the guest editor Aimee Bender for the anthology Best Small Fictions. Her short plays were staged at Berkeley Repertory Theatre as part of the PlayGround Writers Pool, where they won People’s Choice Awards in 2018 and 2019. She is a repeat performer in the live storytelling show Mortified. She is a Junior Lecturer in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, where she earned her MFA in fiction and won a Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award in 2021.