Kate Tooley is a queer writer originally from the Atlanta area, now based in Brooklyn. They are an alum of Lambda Literary’s Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices and The Kenyon Review’s Writers Workshop, and they hold an MFA from The New School. Their work appears in journals including Passages North, Wigleaf, and Barren Magazine and has won the Tennessee Williams Fest Very Short Fiction Contest and the Larry Brown Short Story Award. They’re currently working on a queer gothic novel about small-town Southern cults, murder, and bodily possession.
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The Golden Apples of Little River, Alabama
The Kenyon Review · “The Golden Apples of Little River, Alabama” by Kate Tooley Sharks are older than the North Star and gingko trees are the last of their kind […]