Recent Work:

 
"Cryptozoology," 2024 winner of the
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction Prize



"The anthology’s stand-out stories pack the emotional punch of a novel. Kathleen McNamara’s prizewinning “Pyrosome” blends teenage love and family dysfunction into a story with witches, a mythological sea creature, and climate disaster that’s set in small-town Arizona."
—Elaine Chiew, Foreword Reviews


"Limits of Reversal" in Witness


"Chimera" in The Columbia Journal,
winner of the 2020 Winter Nonfiction Prize


"Inhabited" in Redivider, winner of
2020 Beacon Street Nonfiction Prize
& "Best of the Net" nominee