A recent graduate of University of Arkansas MFA Program in Creative Writing and Translation, and the recipient of both the Lily Peter Fellowship and James Whitehead Award in Fiction, Kait Yates is a lecturer, editor, and writer living on the Virginia coast. Her work, which meshes elements of slipstream and nonrealistic fiction to explore issues of poverty, has appeared in Porter House Review, and was recently nominated for Best of the Net and PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She is currently at work on a collection of stories focusing on trauma manifesting as inexplicable environmental disasters—and a novel.