About
Kate Wisel is the author of Driving in Cars with Homeless Men, winner of the 2019 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Min Jin Lee. She also worked as a research assistant on the book Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly. Her fiction can be found in places that include Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Tin House, Adroit Journal, Redivider (as winner of the Beacon Street Prize), Terrain as winner of the 2024 Editor’s Prize and has been anthologized in W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction America and The Best Small Fictions 2019. She is the recipient of the “Poetry on the T” prize and the Marcia Keach Prize. She was a Carol Houck fiction fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and awarded scholarships at the Wesleyan Writer’s Conference, Squaw Valley Writer’s Workshop, Juniper Institute, Writing x Writer’s at Tomales Bay and Methow Valley and elsewhere. She teaches at Carroll University. She is a screenwriter in the Writers Guild of America and is adapting her book into a television series. She is represented by Stephanie Delman at Trellis Literary Management. For film/TV, she is represented by Hilary Zaitz Michael at WME.