Petty, Kate Reed

NOMINATIONS:

True Story (Viking), First Novel, 2020

BIO: Kate Reed Petty’s debut novel, “True Story,” was a New York Times Review of Books “Editor’s Choice.” Her fiction and essays have been published by ZZYZZYVA, Electric Literature, and American Short Fiction online, among other places, and her short films have appeared on Narrative and at the 2019 Maryland Film Festival. She lives in Baltimore.