Kate Finegan is a fiction writer whose work has been supported by Access Copyright Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council. She is novel/novella editor for Split/Lip Press and was winner of PRISM International's 2020 Jacob Zilber Prize for short fiction, as selected by Kristen Arnett. She was also 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 grew up in Tennessee and recently moved from Toronto to Saskatchewan with her spouse and two cats.