Kate Keleher's short fiction won the Crazyhorse Short-Short Fiction Contest and was selected by guest editor Aimee Bender for the anthology Best Small Fictions. Her short plays have been staged at Berkeley Repertory Theatre as part of the PlayGround Writers' Pool, where they won People's Choice Awards in 2018 and 2019. She earned her MFA in fiction at Johns Hopkins University, where she won an Excellence in Teaching Award in 2021.