About

Kate Lister Campbell was raised in Kansas City and lives in New York. Her fiction has appeared in Granta Online, Colorado Review, Witness, Indiana Review, and North American Review, among others. Her story, “Ape Opus,” won the 2025 Salamander Fiction Contest and her essay “Body Work,” in Southern Humanities Review was recognized as Notable in Best American Essays 2023. She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College, her MPA from NYU, and her undergraduate degree in History from the University of Chicago. She has served as an editor for The Hong Kong Review and Four Way Review.

She is currently at work on a novel and seeking representation for her debut story collection,