Kate McQuade is the author of the forthcoming novel Hollow Arts, the story collection Tell Me Who We Were (William Morrow, 2019), and the novel Two Harbors (Harcourt, 2005). Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Harvard Review, Joyland, Memorious, and Shenandoah, and her nonfiction has appeared in LitHub, The Washington Post, and TIME Magazine. Her work has recently been supported by the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Mass Cultural Council, Best American Short Stories (Distinguished Story), the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the New Literary Project, which awarded her a Jack Hazard Fellowship for writers who are also high school teachers. She lives and teaches at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA.
At MacDowell in 2016, McQuade drafted and revised stories to be included in her collection-in-progress, The Translator's Daughter. During her 2026 residency, she worked on edits to her novel Hollow Arts. The novel-in-progress, under contract at HarperCollins, was recently awarded support from the New Literary Project, the Mass Cultural Council, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation.
Portrait by Sarah Jordan McCaffery
