Kate Finegan is editor-in-chief of Longleaf Review, novel/novella editor for Split/Lip Press, and author of the forthcoming chapbook Ablaze (Sonder Press). She is this year's winner of PRISM International's Jacob Zilber Prize for short fiction, as selected by Kristen Arnett, and was awarded The Fiddlehead’s 2017 fiction prize for a story which judge Rabindranath Maharaj called “pitch perfect” in its balance of “humour and pathos.” She was runner-up for The Puritan’s Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for a story featuring chickens which, according to judge Heather O’Neill, “have the personality and depth of Dickensian characters.” She lives in Toronto with her spouse and two cats.