Kate Gehan was born and raised in New York City and is a graduate of Haverford College and Emerson College’s MFA program. Her short story collection, The Girl & The Fox Pirate, was published with Mojave River Press in 2018. Among other publications, her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Split Lip Magazine, Literary Mama, People Holding, and as a winner of Midwestern Gothic’s Flash Fiction Summer 2016 series. Kate read as a cast member of the 2014 Listen to Your Mother Show and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, The Best of the Net, and Wigleaf’s 50 (Very) Short Fictions. She lives with her family in the Midwest. Find her on Twitter @stateofkate and at kategehan.com.
In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join us, you will work in a small group of around 15-20 participants to give and receive feedback on flash narratives—one new writing task each week.