Kate McGunagle
Kate (she/they) is a queer writer, playwright, multimedia visual artist, and graduate of Boston University’s M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and Princeton University. Kate is deeply interested in art and stories that wrestle with the seemingly impossible – those that examine queer bodies, experience, and pleasure, interrogate rape culture and gendered violence, and revel in the spaces between social categories and within ordinary life.
Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Five Points, Passages North, The Whitefish Review, and The North American Review. Their essay “Passive Voice” was the recipient of the 2021 Terry Tempest Williams Prize in Creative Nonfiction and recognized as a Notable Essay in the Best American Essays 2022. They are the author behind the Substack Bardette.
Kate was a 2022-23 fellow through the Tennessee Playwrights Studio. Plays include M (TPS), SISTER OF MINE (October 2023 world premiere via the Strides Collective), CAT THINGS, and JUDITH GOES TO CHURCH.