About
Kate Wisel is the author of Driving in Cars with Homeless Men, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Min Jin Lee. She also worked as a research assistant on the book Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly. Her fiction can be found in places that include Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Tin House, Adroit Journal, Redivider (as winner of the Beacon Street Prize), Terrain as winner of the 2024 Editor’s Prize and has been anthologized in W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction America and The Best Small Fictions 2019. She was a Carol Houck fiction fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and awarded scholarships at the Wesleyan Writer’s Conference, Squaw Valley Writer’s Workshop, Juniper Institute, Writing x Writer’s at Tomales Bay and Methow Valley and elsewhere. She was awarded the 2026 McCormack Writing Center Next Book residency. She teaches at Carroll University and is a screenwriter in the Writers Guild of America, adapting her book into a television series. She is represented by Stephanie Delman at Trellis Literary Management. For film/TV, she is represented by Hilary Zaitz Michael at WME.